I got a secondhand MacBook pro and had to delete alot of things off it and it's it taking ages to delete and won't let me turn off or restart
I got a secondhand MacBook pro and deleted the content from the person before e.g photos and word document but I tryed to delete them all at the one time and now finder is going really slow and it won't let me restart the computer. Please help
Collin Ong1 wrote:
if I were you, I'd just format and reinstall the whole system to clean off everything from the previous user. Even after you delete their pictures and files, there will be a ton of preference files, config stuff, etc. from them left on the machine.
Good call Collin. I would also zero the HD while I was starting over.
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