Need to reinstall fresh copy of mavericks
Hello.
I have owned a MacBook upgraded a version of mavericks.
Recently I purchased a used i mac with mavericks, Core i3, 500gb HD 16gb ram, still the ownership of this machine is with first user
Any possibility to reinstall a fresh copy of mavericks using my apple ID and changing owner profiles.
Please help me on this…
Thanks.
The previous owner should go to their support profile at Apple - Support - Welcome To My Support Profile and unregister the iMac.
Then you would create a new administrator account on the iMac with your Apple ID, and delete the old admin account with the previous owner's ID.
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