How can I wipe out all my info on an old emac

I have an old emac i want to wipe out the info on it so I can donate it

With an install CD, you boot from the CD by holding down the C key at startup. Then go to "drive setup" and format the drive, choosing the option to zero data once.
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How can i wipe out my personal info from my mac

i would like to know how i can wipe all my personalyy info from my mac

Ace_ wrote:
i would like to know how i can wipe all my personal info from my mac
1: The absolute best way Grade A method would be to remove the storage drive and replace with another, melt the old drive in a +1500º F kiln, or smash it to tiny bits with a sledgehammer / hydraulic press and distribute the pieces into the trash as widespread as possible.
Then hold c booting from a OS X install disk (10.6 or earlier if th emachine came with that) or hold option key booting from a 10.7 install USB ($69, no user ID associated) and install your OS onto the new drive and shutdown at the Welcome screen.
2: If you don't want to replace the drive but don't want a wealthy individual, corporation or government using special equipment to read most of your data.
Then hold c booting from a OS X install disk, (or command r booting from 10.7 Recovery) and using Disk Utility to Erase with 7x overwrite on the OS X boot partition will do. Takes many hours to complete.
There might be small bits left in mapped off sectors, journaled drives, your basically trusting the drive makers / OS maker to erase your drive completely. Then reinstall your OS and shutdown at the Welcome screen.
3: If you don't want to replace the drive, not all that paranoid, but don't want most anyone using special software like DataRescue to read your deleted data off the drive, then hold c booting from a OS X install disk, (or command r booting from 10.7 Recovery) and using Disk Utility to Erase with Zero will do. Takes about a few hours. Then reinstall your OS and shutdown at the Welcome screen.
4: If your not the least bit concerned someone could read your deleted data, simply hold c booting from a OS X install disk, (or command r booting from 10.7 Recovery) and using Disk Utility to Erase (with Security Option will do.) Takes about a few seconds. Then quit DU, reinstall your OS and shutdown at the Welcome screen.

How can I take out all my HealthVault data?

As titled, how can I take out all my HealthVault data?

Hi,
I'm assuming by "take out" you mean you want to save copies of your data to keep outside of HealthVault.
In general, you want to use the Export feature. Find it by going to the Health Information page, then in the "More actions" menu, choose "Export information." If you're trying to send the data to another system, then you'll probably want to choose CCD or
CCR format. If you are keeping records for yourself, HTML would be the human-readable format. The different formats behave differently, so I'd recommend checking that the exported file contains the data you want.
After you export, then you'll want to go into the Files section of the Health Information page and download the files you want to keep. This will be especially important for files that came from a doctor, hospital, pharmacy, or lab.
If you want to close your HealthVault account, make sure you've got all the data you want before you close the account. By the way, if by "take out" the data you meant "delete" the data, when you close your account the data will be deleted from HealthVault
as per the Privacy Statement.
Hope this helps,
Kathy

I just lost my iphone5 in a foreign country. Was not able to register it with icloud and have not installed the findmy iphone app. How can i wipe out my data remotely without these setups? Please help!

I just lost my iphone5 in a foreign country. Was not able to previously register it with icloud and have not installed the findmy iphone app. How can i wipe out my data remotely without these setups? Is there any good app i can use to track it? Please help!

No, nothing you can do to track it if you did not take any measures before the loss.

How can i wipe out some albums of music from my ipodnano 6 th?

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How can i find out all the different meanings of User ID Paramtrs (USR05)?

Dear Gurus
How can i find out all the different meanings of User ID Parameters (table USR05)?
Thanks
Nuno Natividade

hi,
   the values are stored in the table tpara and they are used to put the landscape of the system,and to know the log of the system.
FORM DETERMINE_LANDSCAPE .
    SELECT SINGLE * FROM USR05
                    WHERE BNAME = SY-UNAME
                        AND PARID = 'ZLANDSCAPE'.
    IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
      IF NOT USR05-PARVA IS INITIAL.
   REPLACE
      ELSE.
        PERFORM DETERMINE_FROM_CENTRAL_SYSTEM.
      ENDIF.
    ELSE.
      PERFORM DETERMINE_FROM_CENTRAL_SYSTEM.
    ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    " determine_landscape
FORM DETERMINE_LOG_PARAMETER.
    SELECT SINGLE * FROM USR05 WHERE BNAME = SY-UNAME
                        AND PARID = 'ZLOG_USER'
                        AND PARVA = 'X'.
    IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
      WITH_LOG = 'X'.
    ENDIF.
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venkat.
Edited by: Alvaro Tejada Galindo on Mar 4, 2008 12:47 PM

HT5625 I cannot send a text thru iMessage. I followed the directions over and over again but can't make it work. Also how can I find out all the apple ids I may have.

I cannot send a text thru iMessage. I followed the directions over and over again but can't make it work. Also how can I find out all the apple ids I may have.

A wet phone is out of warranty. This is considered user damage. Even if you were able to get it to start now, the chances of it working for long are slim. I suggest going to Apple and see about an OOW replacement. One for the iPhone 4 is only $149USD and it would come with a short warranty. It is a refurbished device and you would not be worried about encountering additional problems.

How can I wipe out Windows completely?

Hi all,
Since my attempt yesterday to have a go at Windows 8 was a bit of a flop due to bad drivers, I erased the Bootcamp partition with Disk Utility and merged it back to the main one, and went on using my Mac as per usual.
But this morning when I switched it on, guess what... it tried to boot Windows and gave me the black screen with "no bootable disk blah blah", so now I have to start it pressing the Option key even if there's (suppossedly) no trace of Windows.
Any hints on how to completely wipe it out?
I'm on a MacBook Pro 13" mid 2010 running 10.6.8.
Thanks!

Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and select OS X. To delete Windows, you have to use Boot Camp Assistant

How can I print out all notes?

I have over 200 notes and I would like to print out a copy to keep as a reference. Is it possible to somehow print out all of the notes at once without having to open up each one individually and print them out.

It's not a file, so you can't "open" one file. Every message (and note) is a single file on the computer.
This Applescript will grab all the notes in the selected mailbox (i.e. the selected Notes item in Mail) and put them in a textEdit document.
Note that Mail doesn't differentiate between a note and an email message, so if you run this while a normal email mailbox is selected, it will gather all of your email messages.
tell application "Mail"
set theMailboxes to the selected mailboxes of message viewer 0
repeat with aMailbox in theMailboxes
set theNotes to the messages of aMailbox
set theText to ""
repeat with aNote in theNotes
set theText to theText & content of aNote & return
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
tell application "TextEdit"
set myDocument to make new document at end of documents with properties {text:theText}
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Copy and paste this into a new AppleScript Editor Document, select the Notes mailboxes you want to print the notes from, and click the Run button (Green button with arrow).
This may take a while.

How can I print out all texts from one person

How can I printall of my texts from my very bad lawyer?

It's not a file, so you can't "open" one file. Every message (and note) is a single file on the computer.
This Applescript will grab all the notes in the selected mailbox (i.e. the selected Notes item in Mail) and put them in a textEdit document.
Note that Mail doesn't differentiate between a note and an email message, so if you run this while a normal email mailbox is selected, it will gather all of your email messages.
tell application "Mail"
set theMailboxes to the selected mailboxes of message viewer 0
repeat with aMailbox in theMailboxes
set theNotes to the messages of aMailbox
set theText to ""
repeat with aNote in theNotes
set theText to theText & content of aNote & return
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
tell application "TextEdit"
set myDocument to make new document at end of documents with properties {text:theText}
end tell
Copy and paste this into a new AppleScript Editor Document, select the Notes mailboxes you want to print the notes from, and click the Run button (Green button with arrow).
This may take a while.

How can I print out all notes or export the entire file?

I have around 300 notes that include a variety of information. I would like to print out a hard copy. I don't want to open and print out each one individually. Is there a way to print out all of them at once. Also, is there a way export the file so I can open it in another application like Excel or Word?

It's not a file, so you can't "open" one file. Every message (and note) is a single file on the computer.
This Applescript will grab all the notes in the selected mailbox (i.e. the selected Notes item in Mail) and put them in a textEdit document.
Note that Mail doesn't differentiate between a note and an email message, so if you run this while a normal email mailbox is selected, it will gather all of your email messages.
tell application "Mail"
set theMailboxes to the selected mailboxes of message viewer 0
repeat with aMailbox in theMailboxes
set theNotes to the messages of aMailbox
set theText to ""
repeat with aNote in theNotes
set theText to theText & content of aNote & return
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
tell application "TextEdit"
set myDocument to make new document at end of documents with properties {text:theText}
end tell
Copy and paste this into a new AppleScript Editor Document, select the Notes mailboxes you want to print the notes from, and click the Run button (Green button with arrow).
This may take a while.

How can my program download all-purpose info like nation names, ZIP codes, etc?

WHAT I HAVE:
Visual Basic 2010, .NET 4.0, WinForms
MY PROBLEM:
I'm writing a VB WinForms app that keeps track of social contacts, and allows users to specify info like their social contact's country and/or ZIP/Postal code. I'd like to know if there are tools that my program can use to download
lists of nations' names, of valid ZIP/Postal codes, etc.--and which tool is best for the purposes of my programs. What do you recommend?
Robert Gustafson

Your first problem is to find a source of the data. A quick search suggested the
Universal Postal Union website. You would have to try downloading their database and pay around with it to see if it is useful to you.
Once you have found your data, you will need to decide if it is convenient for your program to download and use at run time, or if you need to download all the data in advance and format it in a way to make it easier for your program to use.

Plugged in iphone to my iMac, it asked me to back my iPhone. Now everything on my iphone is lost. How can I retrieve back all my info?

All my contacts, photos, app information, videos and messages have gone. I don't know where they are on my computer and I want to know how I can restore them back on my iphone. Thanks, looking forward to your reply

In the iCloud preference pane, sign in to the same account you use on the other devices, if you haven't already done that. Then check the box marked Contacts.

How can I clear out all smart tags?

I just upgraded from Photoshop Elements 6 to Elements 10. In the Elements 6 release you can do a FIND on all untagged items, so I can easily find all pictures that I have not yet gotten around to tagging.
On Elements 10 I find that the software has automatically added a "Smart Tag" tag to ALL of my pictures, making the FIND UNTAGGED useless. I assumed this happened when I converted my catalog. I have now gone back and disabled the Smart Tag feature (now that I know about it) so that new pictures will NOT get Smart Tegged. However, my database of tens of thousands of pictures has been contaminated by Smart Tags.
Is there anyway to get all the Smart Tags cleared out of the database so I can find the pictures that I have not yet manually tagged?
Alternately, is there a way to find pictures that have a Smart Tag but no manual tag?

photodrawken wrote:
Excellent! Glad you found a solution.
msrecant wrote:
However, it appears to me that as soon as one enables the Smart Tag feature the "Find untagged items" feature becomes almost meaningless.
Absolutely right. Although Smart Tags are automatically generated, as far as the database is concerned, for the images they are tags just like any other tags.
Ken
This time, even if it's not exactly a bug, it is a disastrous default setting.
All autoanalyzer functions should be disabled by default, and only enabled knowingly.
The other lesson is that the Find menu should be able to search for files without a tag while ignoring the 'smart' tags.
The fact that the option to 'remove tags from selected items' cannot be used when you have to many tags (only one page display of tags, without a way to scroll down to next screen) is a bug in my opinion.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1035239?tstart=0

How can I WIPE OUT a previous installation (without erasing entire volume)?

Like many people (apparently) I had severe problems updating to 10.4.4 (from 10.4.3). I was trying to use a laCie D2 firewire drive as the boot volume. No dice, so I finally reinstalled 10.4.3 on a different drive and have had no problems since.
I would like to recover the disk space on the laCie D2 firewire drive that is being wasted by previous bad installs. However, I don't know exactly what files to delete and I figure there are system files hanging around that are not visible to me, etc. Is there some kind of cleanup utility for this sort of situation or should I just erase the entire volume? This would be kind of a pain as I'd have to reinstall a bunch of apps. What's the safest way to go?
I STILL have not been able to find out why installing 10.4.4 on this Firewire drive turned out so flaky. Disk Util reports absolutely no problems on this drive.
G4 Mac OS X (10.0.x) 10.4.4 crashing firewire LaCie

Hi jd:
I have 10.4.4 on my LaCie and it runs beautifully. You can try using Deinstaller. I have never used it and can't vouch for it. You can select everything you don't want on your drive for deletion. Please be careful as you don't want to delete anything you can't afford to lose.
You can use Carbon Copy Cloner to install the OS you want from your internal HDD> Go into Preferences in CCC and click on the checkbox to Make Bootable, Repair Permissions and Synchronize. Then after you have selected your Sources you can edit the list that shows up deleting items you don't want to clone. It will clone everything you want to your LaCie.
If I may suggest, it might be a good idea to run Repair Disk on your LaCie before the above operations.
Post back with questions or comments.
Good luck.
cornelius
Pismo400, 100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS (10.4.4) Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

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