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why is that, theres lots of it on ALL MY FILES
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1749536" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>Hello again , Ron.</p><p></p><p>In post #7 you said: </p><p></p><p>The article I linked explains how to do this. You don't need an installer (although having one would speed things up for sure). You can reboot on your wife's Mac holding down Command + R and this takes you into the Recovery Partition; from which you can re-download macOS Sierra. The article takes you through all the stages of a "Clean" install, meaning Erase, reformat, re-install. It's all there.</p><p></p><p>You don't have to go all the way. You could simply reinstall Sierra on top of the current one - it was you who mentioned "Clean Install" - and a Clean Install is probably advisable given the awful hacking of credit cards and so on.</p><p></p><p>And in answer to another question, no, you can't make a bootable installer via Launchpad. </p><p></p><p>To create a bootable installer, you need to download the OS in question and BEFORE it installs on the Mac, create it - easiest in my view is by using the free Diskmaker X.</p><p></p><p>But, as I said, you don't actually need a bootable installer to do what you originally posted - a clean install. </p><p></p><p>I your very last post, you said:</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm confused. Because there is no way you can achieve what you want without reinstalling Sierra - most conveniently via Cmd + R (as above and as per the article) - (you would need to download Sierra to create a USB bootable Installer as you don't have one and that can't be achieved on a Mac where Sierra is the existing OS - as you have found out).</p><p></p><p>Ron, I really do understand the awful things that have happened to your wife's Mac, and your attempt to rectify the problem and your concern about not having a USB Bootable Installer etc. Have a read of that article again, maybe. It's easy to follow all the steps involved, I think.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1749536, member: 83420"] Hello again , Ron. In post #7 you said: The article I linked explains how to do this. You don't need an installer (although having one would speed things up for sure). You can reboot on your wife's Mac holding down Command + R and this takes you into the Recovery Partition; from which you can re-download macOS Sierra. The article takes you through all the stages of a "Clean" install, meaning Erase, reformat, re-install. It's all there. You don't have to go all the way. You could simply reinstall Sierra on top of the current one - it was you who mentioned "Clean Install" - and a Clean Install is probably advisable given the awful hacking of credit cards and so on. And in answer to another question, no, you can't make a bootable installer via Launchpad. To create a bootable installer, you need to download the OS in question and BEFORE it installs on the Mac, create it - easiest in my view is by using the free Diskmaker X. But, as I said, you don't actually need a bootable installer to do what you originally posted - a clean install. I your very last post, you said: Now, I'm confused. Because there is no way you can achieve what you want without reinstalling Sierra - most conveniently via Cmd + R (as above and as per the article) - (you would need to download Sierra to create a USB bootable Installer as you don't have one and that can't be achieved on a Mac where Sierra is the existing OS - as you have found out). Ron, I really do understand the awful things that have happened to your wife's Mac, and your attempt to rectify the problem and your concern about not having a USB Bootable Installer etc. Have a read of that article again, maybe. It's easy to follow all the steps involved, I think. Ian [/QUOTE]
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