Question: How do I go about erasing free space on a Mac?

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Leslie - 17 May 2008 08:19 GMT

Hi. I got a new Mac for my birthday and my parents are making me give
my old one to my younger sister. I don't want the letters and photos
that I trashed resurrected by her. Thank you.

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Brian Paul Ehni - 17 May 2008 15:54 GMT

On 5/17/08 2:19 AM, in article 170520080019233514%Leslie@UW.edu, "Leslie"

> Hi. I got a new Mac for my birthday and my parents are making me give
> my old one to my younger sister. I don't want the letters and photos
> that I trashed resurrected by her. Thank you.

To answer your question, your best bet is to format the hard drive and
reinstall everything.

Practically speaking however, she would have a little trouble recovering
those files without special software.

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Brian Ehni

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Barbarossa - 17 May 2008 21:43 GMT

> Hi. I got a new Mac for my birthday and my parents are making
> me give my old one to my younger sister. I don't want the
> letters and photos that I trashed resurrected by her.

Disk Utility> Volume> Erase> Erase Free Space

should do the trick. Your options there are:

Zero out erase

7-pass erase

35-pass erase

Just what kind of letters and photos WERE they? ;^)

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Leslie - 19 May 2008 08:33 GMT

> > Hi. I got a new Mac for my birthday and my parents are making
> > me give my old one to my younger sister. I don't want the
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> Just what kind of letters and photos WERE they? ;^)

Thank you Barbie,
The letters included my most pious and saintly correspondence with
friends of the Pope, and photos taken at my most favorite places to go
fishing.
;-)

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