07-24-2009, 02:33 PM
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!
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!