Selling iBook: How to Clean out Personal Info/Settings?

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olywafox

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I am selling my iBook 900 and would like to remove all accounts and personal information without loosing installed software. I have made backups of all important documents and files, so those can be trashed (erased). But, I don't want to loose software that is installed. I don't have original disks of some, and others were downloaded Freeware (not that the new user couldn't download these again, but it would be much simpler to keep them).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nick
 
I would be formatting and reinstalling the OS from scratch, as well as doing a secure wipe of the drive during the setup process. You could spend days going through folders and files and deleting what you don't want, and still there would be some private info such as emails or passwords floating round in there.

The new user can go and find whatever software they need for themselves.
 
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