How To Delete Everything On A Mac Computer

All the data you have on your hard drive will be wiped off when you delete everything on mac. Therefore, to save your significant documents and information, you need to build a backup. This is like cloning and maintaining your hard drive for a while.

By copying everything to an external computer or iCloud, you can manually back up all of your records and applications. However, Time Machine— the built-in software of the Mac— is the quicker and safer way to back up your Mac. It enables individual files to be recovered and your entire hard drive to be restored in case of a catastrophe.

Before using Time Machine, however, make sure your Mac is cleaned up. You don't want all the junk it includes to back up, are you? Plus, if your Mac isn't cluttered, a backup will go quicker and smoother. You can use a tool such as CleanMyMac X for a quick cleanup. It will help you remove large and old files, useless apps, caches and system junk in two clicks.

How to clean junk GBs in less than 5 minutes:.

1.) Download and run CleanMyMac X.

2.) Click the Scan button.

3.) Click the Run button.

Once your Mac has been cleaned, allow backups from Time Machine:.

1.) Go to the top left of your screen in the Apple menu and select System Preferences.

2.) Choose the Time Machine.

3.) Click the Backup Disk button.

4.) Choose the disk that you want to back up to Time Machine, then press Use Disk.

5.) Automatically check the Back-Up box to automatically back up your Mac to the selected disk.

That's it!

Note that, depending on how many files you have, your first backup may take a long time. But don't skip this step— the backup will enable you to restore all of your information if it goes wrong when you delete everything on mac.

Our guide to wiping all your information from a Mac allows you to delete everything on mac with a smooth and functional macOS installation to an unblemished factory state as if it were fresh out of the box. If you forgot the password, you might want to read instead How to delete everything on mac without the password. (Or read our iPhone or iPad removal or reset manually if you want to wipe one of them).

In short, here's how to delete everything on mac. More details can be found below and connected from each step.

1.) Make sure you are linked to the internet so that you can download the recent Mac operating system that can run on your computer. This may be Mojave macOS, but an elderly Mac may need an elderly version of Mac OS X (we're explaining how to get one here).

2.) Save your Mac with Time Machine or clone your internal hard drive to an external drive using a SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner application. This allows you to access all of your old files, and if you want to restore your Mac, the drive can be re-cloned to the internal drive.

3.) Authorize your shop account for iTunes. (You should also deauthorize any third-party applications that are locked into your Mac, such as Photoshop.)

4.) Sign out and deactivate iCloud.

5.) In recovery mode, restart the Mac. Hold down Command and R main while restarting-or use alternate key combination as suitable (here we have a comprehensive tutorial to use Recovery Mode).

6.) To remove the hard drive, use the Disk Utility. Click on the Tool > Continue. Choose the primary volume and then press Unmount). Quit the disk tool.

7.) Click Reinstall and Continue MacOS or Reinstall. Follow the macOS reinstallation directions.

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