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<blockquote data-quote="MikeFromMesa" data-source="post: 1747464" data-attributes="member: 305741">I will be giving my (early 2013 15&quot; i7 Retina) MacBook Pro to a family member and was just about to restore it to its factory settings when a question popped into my mind. If I restore it to its factory settings that will clean it and restore it to Mavericks (which, as I remember, was the release OS). I will then give it to my step-son who will try to upgrade it to Sierra to be current, but that will require a 3 OS upgrade at once which may be a bit chancey. That made me wonder if there is any way to clean it completely, but leave the current OS in place. That is, is there any way to remove any personal information without doing a complete restore to a previous OS?I will do a factory reset if needed, but I am trying to save my step-son the problem of having to upgrade 3 OS versions at one time. Or is a 3 OS update not an issue?Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MikeFromMesa, post: 1747464, member: 305741"] I will be giving my (early 2013 15" i7 Retina) MacBook Pro to a family member and was just about to restore it to its factory settings when a question popped into my mind. If I restore it to its factory settings that will clean it and restore it to Mavericks (which, as I remember, was the release OS). I will then give it to my step-son who will try to upgrade it to Sierra to be current, but that will require a 3 OS upgrade at once which may be a bit chancey. That made me wonder if there is any way to clean it completely, but leave the current OS in place. That is, is there any way to remove any personal information without doing a complete restore to a previous OS? I will do a factory reset if needed, but I am trying to save my step-son the problem of having to upgrade 3 OS versions at one time. Or is a 3 OS update not an issue? Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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