I have an old G5 MAC I want to recycle but I need to clean my drive. I can't find the diskette that came with the MAC to do this. Any suggestions
Any suggestions on wiping my MAC drives clean if I don't have the diskette that came with it?
Don't mean to upstage a level 6 Tech but having just wiped my own G5 for reinstall, I know you can do it on the computer monitor. If by "recycle" you mean to sell or give away the computer, go to Disk Utilities (in Application/Utilities) and hit the erase button, choose the 35x swipe and it's supposed to clean it completely within a couple of hours. I did the 7x wipe and got a sudo (single user que) showing nothing but the presence of BSD initiation and a "We're hanging here". Did a reinstall and it's beautiful.
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You can do it with Leopard but it depends upon the iTunes version which you did not reveal. Also make sure you are looking in the right place for purchases.
Consider buying a backup drive so you do not need to do this again. If you are going to run old hardware and software you need to live differently because yes, at some time you will find your version of iTunes no longer works. You're lucky it still works with Leopard. As you can see, some versions still work with the iTunes Store but not for repeat downloading.
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Select the iTunes Store on the left side of iTunes if you have the sidebar displayed, or with the button at the top right.
Click on Purchased on the right side under Quick Links (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/26364186#26364186)
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Hey b.elyse
Check out the following article that will assist with removing iTunes. Make sure to follow the order to ensure that it removed properly.
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1925
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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lizdance40, audio books are NOT available for redownload. Books with words areavailable for redownload.
See:
http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/03/audiobooks-are-not-backed-up-by-icloud-can-only-b e-downloaded-o/
In the future please do not post incorrect information
lizdance40 wrote:
If iTunes still carries the books, they ARE available to download from the cloud, either to the computer or your iPod Touch directly.
Open iBooks on the device and tap on 'purchased'.
download.
iTunes does not garentee to carry a book forever, a serious flaw. If you can't find the book in iTunes anymore and didn't keep it on the computer, or backed up, it may be gone.
To add audio books to the iPod;
you have to check the box at the bottom section of the Books screen that says, "sync audio books" -
Any suggestions are welcome. I must be missing something?
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/#video-lion
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Beginning to think about moving from my eMac.
Now that Marathon has moved along,
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I boot into 10.4.11 when I want to use Photoshop.
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