Re: Question: How do I go about erasing free space on a Mac?
by Leslie <Leslie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 19, 2008 at 12:33 AM
In article <whewitt-E0F09B.13435117052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Barbarossa <whewitt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Leslie <Leslie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Hi. I got a new Mac for my birthday and my parents are making
> > me give my old one to my younger sister. I don't want the
> > letters and photos that I trashed resurrected by her.
>
>
> Disk Utility> Volume> Erase> Erase Free Space
>
> should do the trick. Your options there are:
>
> Zero out erase
>
> 7-pass erase
>
> 35-pass erase
>
> Just what kind of letters and photos WERE they? ;^)
Thank you Barbie,
The letters included my most pious and saintly correspondence with
friends of the Pope, and photos taken at my most favorite places to go
fi****ng.
;-)