I want to take all my data off but leave the factory applications, etc. How do I do that?

How do I take all my data off my computer but leave the factory applications, etc. , I have a portable backup drive to remove everything but the person at the apple store told me I'd have to restore the factory settings.

Use your install disc, go to Utilities>Disk Utility and erase your drive - then use the install disc again and reinstall the OS.

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HT1212 i have forgotten my passcode for my ipod,i dont have access to a computer and i dont want to erase all my data off it because i recently went on a school trip to malta and have all my pictures from there on it...any suggestions?

any suggestions????? please!!

If you haven't backed up /imported the photos, it's most likely you can't access that data. Passwords/code are made for security, remember them in the future.
You could try importing photos using
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
You can use
iOS: Forgotten passcode or device disabled after entering wrong passcode
to restore the device, but everything that hasn't been backed up(purchases excluded) will be lost.
After restoring, you can redownload your purchases using this:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Good luck
Stijn

I want to take a voice memo off my iPhone, put it into iTunes Library and convert it to an .mp3. How do I get the voice memos from my phone? I can't seem to move them out of the Devices folder, no matter how much I try to copy and paste or drag and drop

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Also, I need to convert the file to an .mp3.
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Sorry, whatever data you had on your phone has been wipe off already, since your phone is in recovery mode.
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click and hold on one cell, then drag to select the range, then release, then type the delete key. Only inlude cells in the range you do not want to keey the contents of the cell. You can remove one-off cells by holding the command key and clicking cells to add or remove as needed.
You can download the Numbers users guide here:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#productivitysoftware

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my music is all on my iphone. but now the music i downloaded years ago and no longer want is on there with a pic of a cloud? how do i get it off my phone?

swipe left (finger from right of phone to left) over the songs you no longer want. Tap delete and confirm the deletion.

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started about 2 weeks ago, have searched for answer but can't find, probably staring me in the face, after I'm done on the net and go to exit a warning box appears and asks do you want to clear all browser data and whether you choose ok or cancel it does anyway

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I somehow erased everything (all important dates) off my ical on my mac and I'm afraid that if I connect my iphone that it will do the same there. Will my iphone sync the dates that are on the phone and add them to the ical? Or will it delete everything

I somehow erased everything (all important dates) off my ical on my mac and I'm afraid that if I connect my iphone that it will do the same there. Will my iphone sync the dates that are on the phone and add them to the ical? Or will it delete everything

Contacts are designed to be synced to a supported application on the computer or a cloud service.
Pictures taken with the device are designed to regularly be copied off the device to a computer as would be done with any digital camera.
If you have failed to use the device as designed it may be too late to recovery anything.
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I have a G5 with Tiger to sell and want to erase all my data from it, but the cd drive won't work so I can't use the OS10 start up disk. Answers?

I have a G5 to sell and want to erase all my data from it, but the cd drive won't work so I can't use the OS10 start up disk. Any way to do it?

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One piece of advise, though: after deleting the data, and of course emptying the Trash, it wouldn't hurt to also securely erase the "free space" of the drive (instructions here) before disconnecting the old Mac from the new one. This can be helpful, since "deleted" data is often retrievable with ease unles it's written over after the deletion.

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