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#1 2008-08-14 11:06 am
- Henry Marcus
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Cleaning out old iMac (OS 9.0)
We are expecting a delivery any minute now of a new iMac Leopard to replace my wife's old OS 9.0 desktop. After I use my flash drive to save whatever she wants to keep, what do I do to clean out everything that was saved on her hard drive and from the internet ?? I am really not at all knowledgable in this area. I would appr:roll:
:roll:eciate any help. Thank you ion advance. HENRY
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#2 2008-08-14 11:17 am
- sturner
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Re: Cleaning out old iMac (OS 9.0)
All data files. pictures, music, text, documents that she has and wants to keep. Everything except System and applications.
If you have all the data files in folders or a Documents folder, or somesuch, transfer it enmasse. If you really aren't comfortable and think you might miss something, transfer everthing to the new iMac's Documents folder and sort it out from there.
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#3 2008-08-14 11:30 am
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#4 2008-08-14 1:00 pm
- pottymouth
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Re: Cleaning out old iMac (OS 9.0)
If you're cleaning it to sell it or give it away, you should boot from the OS CD that came with it, format the drive, and reinstall the OS fresh. If you're paranoid about somebody recovering your data you could also choose to "zero" the drive when you format it.
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