You can use ShredIt for Mac OS 7 to erase files you've already deleted. You just need to shred the free space on your hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 7 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 7 Read me (pdf) now

You can use ShredIt for Mac OS 7 as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of a hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a computer. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 7 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 7 Read me (pdf) now

You can use ShredIt X to erase files you've already deleted. You just need to shred the freespace on your hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt X or download the ShredIt X Read me (pdf) now

You can use ShredIt for Mac OS 7 as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of an external hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 7 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 7 Read me (pdf) now

Yes, you can use ShredIt for Mac OS 7 as a hard drive cleaner to shred disk free space on your hard drive, or on an external disk/hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 7 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 7 Read me (pdf) now

Yes, you can use ShredIt for Mac OS X as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of a hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a computer. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt X Read me (pdf) now

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Yes, you can use ShredIt for Mac OS X as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of a hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt X Read me (pdf) now

Yes, you can use ShredIt for Mac OS 8/9 as a hard drive cleaner to wipe, shred or erase the free space on your hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 8/9 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 8/9 Read me (pdf) now

Yes, you can use ShredIt X to wipe / shred / erase the free space on your hard drive, or on an external disk/hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt X or download the ShredIt X Read me (pdf) now

Check question number 6 about startup disks; most people need these because of hard disk problems. Apple provides an "erase disk" option on their main menu which will re-initialize some but not all hard drives. Apple also has a "disk test" utility to test formatted disks. There is also a popular control panel add on for "SCSI probe" which is helpful, check various Mac shareware sites for it.

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Yes, you can use ShredIt for Mac OS X to erase the temporary files created when you use the internet, although it would be cumbersome. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt X Read me (pdf) now For a much more convenient way of doing this, use NetShred, the automatic internet track eraser.

Each person who has logged into the computer will have his or her files and settings stored in a folder named with his or her user name. Only the person who is logged in (or an Administrator) can access his or her personal folder. To find these user folders: The My Documents folder is located within this user folder (Note: The My Documents icon on your desktop is a shortcut to this folder). Files that were saved to the desktop are located in the Desktop folder.

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In the left panel, click the external FireWIre drive and select "Partition" in menu on the right. Choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and name the drive. Click "Options" at the bottom of the window. If you have an Intel Mac, select "GUID" as the partition scheme. If you have a Power PC Mac, select ???Apple Partition Map." Click "Partition." It will ask to confirm, click "Partition" again and the partitioning process will begin.

If you have your files on an old Mac with a SCSI drive internal or external; and your new Mac does not have a SCSI external connector or use SCSI drives internally, what can you do? I'll discuss many options. My GENERAL advice is as follows. EITHER use some kind of Mac which HAS SCSI to read your drive, and use it to transfer files either by connection or by transfer to another media (floppy, CD, ZIP disk). OR, you add some kind of SCSI hardware to your new Mac to read the drive.

We prefer Windows OS formatted files. If you use a Mac, we would prefer if you do the conversion before sending the files. If you need assistance with this, we would be glad to help.

Mac OS X can also use the old fonts folder “/System Folder/Fonts” from Mac OS 9 for Classic. Thus, it is not necessary to move old OS 9 fonts you had installed for OS X, but if you wish to install new fonts to use in Classic, you must follow the steps below

When you throw a file into the trash and then empty the trash, the file is not removed from the hard disk. The computer simply takes the file name out of its directory but the contents are still there until that part of freespace is overwritten by some other data. To erase it, you need to shred your free space. We recommend you use ShredIt X. It erases files, folders, disk free space, hard drives and more.

All programs are automatically deleted when the 7-day check-out period expires. If you choose to delete programs manually, open the Player and identify the title to be deleted. Click on the "Trashcan" icon to delete the program from both the Player and the associated computer hard drive. Deleted programs still count toward your 10 allowable downloads if they are within the seven-day check-out period.

To recursively remove these files from the current working directory type the following from the command line: find . -name .DS_Store -exec rm {} \;

No. While you probably don't want to stick magnets directly to your computer case, having them nearby will not harm your computer. Magnets can damage floppy disks and magnetic tape storage media, so you must keep magnets away from these items. They will not, however, damage any data on your hard drive. Every hard drive already contains a powerful neodymium magnet, so one moving around outside the case will not affect the data. Here is an article from PCWorld Magazine to support this: http://msn.