how to prepare our emac 4 sale

[robfilms]

i'm selling locally my emac/1.42.

it is running 10.4.10

i want to move all the contents onto a firewire drive (probably use carbob copy cloner)

and then i want to wipe the drive clean.

i then want the new owner to be able to change the administrator and the related password.

without the original install disks, how would i offer the new owner that option?

i rather not tell the new owner the present admin name and password.

any and all thoughts would be helpful.

btw, sold the emac/1.42 for $250/cash to a nice guy w/o any haggling

be well

rob
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[pinkoos]

By wiping the drive, I'm assuming you mean completely erase? If so, without the original disks, how will you reinstall the OS?

What I would do (and have done in the past) is this:

-use CCC as you said to clone your drive to an external
-from your admin account, create a new user account and give that user admin privileges
-you can name the new account with the name of the buyer or just put "Mac User" or something like that
-for that new user, don't enter a password (just leave it blank when it asks you for a password...you'll get some warning, etc., but that's okay)
-log out of your admin account and then log in as the new user you just created
-if there's any software on their that you are not including, go ahead and either erase, uninstall or use something like AppZapper to remove
-delete your admin account

That's it. The eMac should just have the new user's account with admin privileges and no password. All of your personal information should be gone. To test that, you can open up Mail or iTunes, etc., and it should come up as if it was the first time being launched.

All this works under Leopard just as I've described. I hope it's the same under Tiger, but don't quote me on it!

[robfilms]

p-

great info, thanks.

anyone know if pinkoos' thoughtful reply will work under tiger?

any and all comments are appreciated.

be well

rob

[Ken Sp.]

Pinkoos has it right.

Don't forget to de-authorize computer in iTunes first.

[robfilms]

Ken Sp. wrote:
Pinkoos has it right.

Don't forget to de-authorize computer in iTunes first.

ken-

how do i "de-authorize" itunes?

be well

rob

[DRR]

From iTunes on YOUR account,

Store/Deauthorize comptuer.

[Psurfer]

Can I assume that the method also works for machines running 10.3?
And is it pretty secure as far as difficulty of digging back up the deleted account's data?

[JEBB]

Be sure the external HD clone you create is bootable before you delete the software on the computer.