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My partner is giving her old intel MacBook to a friend-of-a-friend's child.
The Apple instructions are https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102773
I'm worried that the full disk erase suggested here is a bit OTT and will take forever to update again from OS 10.11 to OS 12 - if it doesn't brick the Mac by refusing to update.
Is there a way to wipe the data without wiping the os? Can I create a new admin user then delete the data for the existing user?
I'm not a Mac user unfortunately so not great on them. I am a programmer as a job so quite techy and happy to follow terminal commands.
Yes you could just create an admin account then delete existing accounts. But if you do flatten it completely it should quite happily reinstall the OS over the internet.
Thanks @slowoldman. I've gone for the flatten and reinstall option, and it's going straight to Monterey as the fresh install.
It's a while since I've done one (I retired 5 years ago) so I couldn't recall if it defaulted to loading the initially installed OS or the latest one supported by the particular model of Mac.Â