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What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac

To prepare your Mac for a new owner, use these steps restore it to factory settings.

Should you use these steps?

If you’ve upgraded to macOS Monterey on a Mac with Apple silicon or a Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip, follow the steps to erase all content and settings instead of the steps in this article.

For any other Mac or macOS, follow the steps below.

Back up or transfer your files

Use an external storage device to back up your files, or use Migration Assistant to move your files to your new Mac.

Sign out of iTunes

If using macOS Catalina or later, you can skip this step.

Open iTunes. From the menu bar at the top of the screen or iTunes window, choose Account > Authorizations > Deauthorize This Computer. Then enter your Apple ID and password and click Deauthorize. Learn more about deauthorizing.

Sign out of iCloud

If using macOS Catalina or later, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Apple ID. Select Overview in the sidebar, then click Sign Out.

If using an earlier version of macOS, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Sign Out.

You will be asked whether to keep a copy of your iCloud data on this Mac. You can keep a copy, because you’re erasing your Mac later. Your iCloud data remains in iCloud and on any other devices that are signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID.

Sign out of iMessage

Open the Messages app, then choose Messages > Preferences from the menu bar. Click iMessage, then click Sign Out.

Reset NVRAM

If using a Mac with Apple silicon, you can skip this step.

Shut down your Mac, then turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R. Release the keys after about 20 seconds. This clears user settings from memory and restores certain security features that might have been altered. Learn more about resetting NVRAM .

Optional: Unpair Bluetooth devices that you’re keeping

If your Mac is paired with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, trackpad, or other device that you plan to keep, you can unpair it. This optional step prevents accidental input when the Mac and device have separate owners but remain in Bluetooth range. If you do this on a Mac that doesn’t have a built-in keyboard or trackpad, you will need to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse to complete the remaining steps.

To unpair a Bluetooth device, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Bluetooth. Move your pointer over the device that you want to unpair, then click the remove (x) button next to the device name.

Erase your Mac and reinstall macOS

Follow the steps to erase your Mac and reinstall macOS. After macOS installation is complete, your Mac restarts to a setup assistant. To leave the Mac in an out-of-box state, press Command-Q to shut down instead of continuing setup.

No matter the model or condition, we can turn your device into something good for you and good for the planet: Learn how to trade in or recycle your Mac with Apple Trade In.

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WMF Viewer — For WMF and EMF 4+

Снимки экрана

Описание

WMF Viewer is a tool for viewing and converting Windows Metafile. Its previous version is EMF Viewer.

Support Versions:
MS-WMF: Windows Metafile Format.
MS-EMF: Enhanced Metafile Format.
MS-EMFPLUS: Enhanced Metafile Format Plus.

Export Formats:
SVG, PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PDF and PS(PostScript).

Sometimes you need to view Windows Metafile on your Mac, but you do not have a suitable tool, so the WMF Viewer is the one you need, it can help you easily view the .wmf and .emf files, and you can convert them to Mac Picture formats such as SVG, PNG and PDF. As an image tool, it is very easy to use, you can drag your .wmf and .emf files to the list, or directly for opening, when you need to convert to other formats, you can batch convert them to SVG, PNG and PDF. For those who need to operate Windows Metafile files, it would be a good helper.

Support 3D graphics: You can view Windows Metafile that contain the 3D objects.

List function: The file list contains the functions you need to use.

1. you can drag the file to the list, or add the file via the add button, or double-click to open .wmf and .emf files with Finder(Note: This feature requires you to set the WMF Viewer as the default tool for .wmf and .emf files), allowing you to add multiple files at once.
2. WMF Viewer support files with the extension .wmf or .emf.
3. Viewing, you can double-click to view, or drag the .wmf and .emf files to the view window.
4. Conversion, you need to select the list of files, and then right click to open the pop-up menu, select the export function, it will help you to convert the selected files to other formats.

Preview Window: View and convert .wmf and .emf files through the preview window just like Finder.

Export: Convert .wmf and .emf to SVG, PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PDF and PS, and you can batch convert files.

We regularly update the product, if you have any questions or suggestions, please send a message to the mailbox(moonlight_beauty@yeah.net), or leave a message on our website.

If you are enjoying the app, please consider leaving a review or rating.

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File Transfer 4+

Delite Studio S.r.l.

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Description

Exchange files and folders between multiple devices seamlessly. File Transfer works cross-platform on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

It is quick and easy. No configuration required, no need to enter an address to connect. Devices are automatically discovered. Drag folders and files and they are transferred to your devices and computers in seconds. Without iTunes and without USB cable.

File Transfer is not a cloud. Files are transferred directly on your local network. No need to upload your files to the Internet, then download them on any device.

What you can do with File Transfer:

• Send and receive files and folders. Simply drag and drop them into File Transfer or onto its Dock icon.

• Send and receive the contents of your clipboard. Select a text, launch File Transfer, and click on the «Edit > Send Clipboard» menu. Or just type Cmd-V.

• Send files, folders, and clipboard from any other application. Select a file in the Finder, a text in TextEdit, or an address in Safari and click on the «Application Name > Services > Send with File Transfer» menu.

To download File Transfer for other platforms go to products.delitestudio.com/file-transfer/

File Transfer is compatible with Local Cloud Pro, the local Dropbox for your photos and documents, File Storage, the best file manager for iOS, and File Storage Companion (free for Mac and Windows).

File Transfer supports Mavericks’ Notification Center and is optimized for your MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Delite Studio develops high-quality native applications and delivers a great customer service. Do you enjoy using this app? Write a positive review. Do you need help? Let us know, we will do everything to help you.

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Find Any File (FAF‪)‬ 4+

Search for files anywhere

Thomas Tempelmann

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Description

Search Beyond The Spotlight

Unhappy with Spotlight because it does not find files that you know to be there? Use FAF to find every file on your disks, including those usually hidden. By file name, date, size, and even plain text content (but not text in Word and PDF files, see note below).

• Recover a file whose name you partially remember?
• See what files got changed in the past 5 minutes?
• Find all the large files on your disk?
• Uninstall software that leaves files in hidden places where Spotlight doesn’t look?
• Search with regular expressions?

Find Any File (FAF) is the perfect tool for these tasks.

You can even search on disks that are not indexed by Spotlight, including network server (NAS) volumes.

Find Any File can find files that Spotlight doesn’t, e.g. those inside bundles and packages, and inside system folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search.

Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead searches the data on disk directly. This lets you search for file properties such as name, creation and modification dates, file size, even plain text inside files.

Another useful feature is its hierarchical results view (see screenshots). It lets you view the found items within their respective folders, making it often much easier to browse through 100s of found items.

•• Note about text search ••

FAF can not search file content other than plain (unformatted and uncompressed) text — and even that is comparatively slow, so don’t expect this to be a good replacement for Spotlight when you need to find text in your documents.

For searching text in Mails, Word, Excel, PDF and similar files, Spotlight is still the best tool (whose results can be enhanced with Tembo and HoudahSpot, also available in the App Store).

•• Here’s what users say about FAF ••

“FAF goes where Spotlight’s can’t easily reach.”

“As the administrator for about 50 school Macs, I often need to look for some file misplaced by a novice or, while troubleshooting a system, I often need to search for obscure operating system files. Find Any File is in my arsenal of tools when things files or folders go astray.”

“I use it when I want to find a specific kind of file or to see and eliminate or compare the double and redundant files. I surely use it 4-5 times a week.”

“I keep FAF as an icon in the toolbar of every Finder window. When I have to actually find something, I use FAF instead of the Finder.”

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The Unarchiver 4+

Open any archive in seconds

MacPaw Inc.

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Description

The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer — see the program homepage for the full list.

The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.

The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need, and to stay out of your way.

Also, if you need to open archives on your iPad or iPhone, look for «Archives» on the App Store, or go to https://theunarchiver.com/archives. It is based on The Unarchiver, and lets you easily handle Archives on iOS!

What’s New

Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes

Ratings and Reviews

Until this version 3.1.2 it was a 5 star now maybe 4

Then they had a problem with 3.11.2, which they think they fixed in 3.11.3. However there are more problems with version 3.11.3. Before the last two versions, I could choose ‘Compress “some directory”’ from the finder menu, and then few minutes later I could uncompress it by using “The Unarchiver”. Now, randomly I get a notofication about the encoding the compressed file uses. So i am temporarily using command line tools to do the operations. BTW, there seems to be another bug that comes up if you select more than about 250 files from Finder and invoke “The Unarchiver”. Then somehow “The Unarchiver” memory gets corrupted, and the menus no longer work(e.g. Quit button disappears.) and the program hangs. Have to force quit it externally. I should mention Xee 3.5.3(marketed by the same company) inherited a bug in the new release, that it can no longer reliably read .cbr and .cbz(or .rar or .zip) files reliably either. Some pages show up as noise, where as other programs(like Comic Reader). So on Xee I rolled back to 3.5.2

Poor error handling

Been using this for years. The app works fine most of the time, but when something is wrong with the archive, the app doesn’t give anything resembling useful information about the error. It just basically tells you something’s wrong. What’s wrong? No details whatsoever other than it can’t extract. When that happens, I have to turn to the unfortunately abandoned UnRarX, which has a test function which tells me what’s wrong with the archive, such as a corrupted part.

Cannot deselect file formats in Preferences

I just installed The Unarchiver, and am attempting to set its preferences. When I try to deselect a file format which I do not want The Unarchiver to expand by default, it will not allow me to do so. It pops up a dialog saying «Set another app as the default app for selected file types if you wish. In smaller print, it describes the procedure to assign default applications to specific file types.

This behavior is extremely annoying. Even if I did not already know how to assign default applications, I should not be required to do so before I can deselect a file type in The Unarchiver’s preferences. This behavior is enough to stop me from using the application. Please fix this obnoxious behavior. It is unreasonable.

App Privacy

The developer, MacPaw Inc. , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Supports

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Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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