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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Any catches on restoring from an old Mac OS X v10.8.5 Time Machine HDD backup to new SSD on a 13.3" MacBook Pro (9,2; MD102ll/A)?
Date: 1 Oct 2015 18:27:27 GMT
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On 2015-10-01, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <6q-dnQB5CatBXpHLnZ2dnUU7-W2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>   Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>>> >>> Yep. They better let us watch them test! :P
>>> > 
>>> >> They did it right in front of me just a couple months ago. Just tell
>>> >> them you want to see it.
>>> > 
>>> > Cool. Definitely NO to taking the HDD. 
>
>>> Why? If you don't want Apple to have the data, simply run Disk Utility and
>>> erase the drive. You can even insist on doing it right there at the store
>>> before you hand it over to them. It's your (his) computer, after all.
>
>> Doing secured erase takes hours though.
>
> WHich one of the tow of you is the paranoid idiot? If it's him, did he
> get it from you?
>
> Does his laptop have nuclear launch codes on it? If not, a simple format
> is absolutely fine. It would take thousands or tens of thousands of
> dollars worth of effort to try to recover anything from a drive that 1)
> has physical problems and 2) has been formatted.

It's interesting. Each time we talk about it, he ends up just dropping
the conversation and ignoring us. Very strange. Does he think we are all
lying to him or something?

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