Is there an easy way to securely delete everything on my macbook PRO except for the OS and applications? Giving my old Macbook to a family member.

Is there an eay way to securely erase all information on my macbook Pro except for the OS and applicatios? I'm donating my computer but want to eliiminate my files and info.

Yes, boot to your install disk (start up while holding C key). Go to Utilities>Disk Utility. Choose erase and format your disk (make sure it's formatted as Mac OSX extended journaled). There's is a button for security options. Choose the 0 option (don't choose the multiple pass versions, or it will take forever, but that's extra security). The 0 option writes a 0 in every location on the drive, and it takes a few hours. It would take CIA or highly skilled hacker abilities to dig out any information.
Once you wipe the disc, reinstall OSX. You're done.

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See Kappy's great User Tips.
See my User Tip for some help: Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
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Call Apple Support in your country: Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
 Cheers, Tom

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what you could even try is to write down a few contacts that you would need to get through a single day, restore it to factory, punch in those few odd contacts,
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I have no real need to upgrade but as a student the price it would be silly not to.
I will be giving my MBP to my girlfriend but she wont use a lot of the software on there such as the final cut and CS5 and would rather use the space for her own iTunes library. Some will be kept on though like the old office suite as i have bought the 2011 one as well
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Hopefully Kappy will jump in here. If not just post a message "Kappy: Preparing MBP for resell?" or something to that effect and I'm sure that he'll see it.
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