Uninitialize Mac OS X

supanatral

supanatral

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In windows there's a program you can run and it will delete what ever files are needed so that when you restart your computer, its almost like your restarting it for the first time and you then have to go through setting up all the initial settings as if you never restarted it in the past. What do I have to do so that I can do that on my mac?
 
Do you mean to get it like it was used the first time ever, to get the setup assistant to open?

In terminal, type

sudo mv /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb.old

/private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone
 
Perfect! That works. Not quite sure what is suppose to happen when I type

Code: 
/private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone

It tells me that I don't have the privileges even though I'm logged in as Administrator. I tried also typing:

Code: 
su -l

However logging in as super user didn't change anything. Hopefully it didn't matter too much. The first line of code worked so I'm not too sure.
 
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