• Selling iMac

    From Colour Sergeant Bourne@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 29 20:03:27 2024
    I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
    account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.

    When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
    for a repair.

    Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
    to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

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  • From Percival John Hackworth@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 30 04:22:56 2024
    On Apr 29, 2024 at 5:03:27 PM PDT, "Colour Sergeant Bourne" <bourne@rorke.za> wrote:

    I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
    account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.

    When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
    for a repair.

    Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
    to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

    I've taken laptops to Apple for repair. They go off the serial # on the machine, not your Apple ID.

    I did use my Apple ID to setup a machine for a contract I was working. I had FIND MY MAC turned on and a bunch of utilities installed under my Apple ID in the Mac Store. I turned that machine in after removing a bunch of apps and files, but the Apple ID was stil set up on the machine. I figured that their laptop provider would wipe and reprovision the machine to a new hire.

    It took a month, but I started getting emails about a stolen laptop setup with my ID. I emailed the company and was told that they were finally provisioning that laptop to someone new. They were going to wipe it that day. Apparently it was on a public network so it sent out emails. I was about to send a "KILL AND WIPE" command to the machine when it stopped responding, so I guess they wiped it. No more emails.

    If you boot the system with a COMMAND-SHIFT-R, it will reload MacOS to the latest version that machine will support via a network install. That's the state I would hand over the machine to whomever is going to get it.
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Percival John Hackworth on Tue Apr 30 18:28:58 2024
    On 2024-04-30 04:22:56 +0000, Percival John Hackworth said:

    On Apr 29, 2024 at 5:03:27 PM PDT, "Colour Sergeant Bourne" <bourne@rorke.za>
    wrote:

    I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
    account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.

    When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
    for a repair.

    Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
    to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

    I've taken laptops to Apple for repair. They go off the serial # on the machine, not your Apple ID.

    I did use my Apple ID to setup a machine for a contract I was working. I had FIND MY MAC turned on and a bunch of utilities installed under my Apple ID in the Mac Store. I turned that machine in after removing a bunch of apps and files, but the Apple ID was stil set up on the machine. I figured that their laptop provider would wipe and reprovision the machine to a new hire.

    It took a month, but I started getting emails about a stolen laptop setup with
    my ID. I emailed the company and was told that they were finally provisioning that laptop to someone new. They were going to wipe it that day. Apparently it
    was on a public network so it sent out emails. I was about to send a "KILL AND
    WIPE" command to the machine when it stopped responding, so I guess they wiped
    it. No more emails.

    If you boot the system with a COMMAND-SHIFT-R, it will reload MacOS to the latest version that machine will support via a network install. That's the state I would hand over the machine to whomever is going to get it.

    In the good ol' days, you could easily replace the hard drive before
    selling an old computer, then there was no chance of any personal
    information being on it nor resurrected.

    These days it's pretty much impossible on most (if not all) current Mac
    models, let alone iPads and iPhones. :-(


    I took an old iMac to the recycling centre yesterday, and they just
    dumped it in a bin outside the door, where anyone could pick it up
    during the night. Luckily it was an old enough model that I had been
    able to remove the hard drive first.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Colour Sergeant Bourne on Tue Apr 30 10:51:36 2024
    On 30.04.24 02:03, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:
    I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
    account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.

    When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
    for a repair.

    Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
    to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

    Remove your iMac from your iCloud/Apple-Account.
    After that reinstall macOS.
    Then sell it.

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Colour Sergeant Bourne on Wed May 1 07:56:13 2024
    On 2024-04-29 20:03, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:
    I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
    account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.

    When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
    for a repair.

    Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
    to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

    I would think not. Apple should have a record tied to the serial number
    of the unit related to its repairs - but that should be independent of
    the owner.

    The only item that comes to mind is if the remaining warranty is
    transferable - esp. if you purchased extended warranty.

    IAC - give the new owner a receipt of some kind to prove his ownership
    should it come to that.

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    nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Your Name on Wed May 1 08:03:44 2024
    On 2024-04-30 02:28, Your Name wrote:

    In the good ol' days, you could easily replace the hard drive before
    selling an old computer, then there was no chance of any personal
    information being on it nor resurrected.

    These days it's pretty much impossible on most (if not all) current Mac models, let alone iPads and iPhones.  :-(


    I took an old iMac to the recycling centre yesterday, and they just
    dumped it in a bin outside the door, where anyone could pick it up
    during the night. Luckily it was an old enough model that I had been
    able to remove the hard drive first.

    If you were using Filevault and decommissioned the Mac correctly, there
    is no way the data can be recovered.

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    “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;
    nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Alan Browne on Wed May 1 08:02:34 2024
    On 2024-05-01 07:56, Alan Browne wrote:

    The only item that comes to mind is if the remaining warranty is
    transferable - esp. if you purchased extended warranty.

    https://support.apple.com/en-ca/111801

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    “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;
    nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
    - Charles de Gaulle.

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