Yeah connect to a wifi network, Then shut the machine down completely Then hold the letter R and command keys down. While holding those and keep holding those for approx. 30 seconds, Turn the power on and keep holding those keys!
This takes you in to the recovery console, Once in this open disk utility and find the volume at the highest level It should be one thing lower than the physical drive partition / label. On that volume you can hit the Shift option and letter E keys, This wil eraise the active volume on the machine, Then once the eraise has finished, Close disk utility and in the list of utilities find the install os option and follow the prompts from there. Note this will possibly take time as it's using a connection to the internet to download the installers for the machine. Please note you do not partition the entire physical drive as this will then require a form of installation media like a USB installation drive or similar.Just eraise the volume which should be if done correctly called "Macintosh HD". hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2018 6:27 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting up a mac to use my account Hello everyone, I honestly can't remember if I already asked this, or not. So if I did, I do apologize. I have a Mac laptop that was given to me. It was a dear friend's of mine! It is running Yosemite and can not be upgraded. When they gave it to me, they didn't clear off their account, from what I can tell. I don't have any CD's or anything like that to go with it, or to re-install anything. So can I somehow set it up to use my account? If so, what would I need to do? Also, is there a website I can go to, where I can read about different Apps I could use with my Mac? Thank you, Terri -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
