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    Time Machine Problems After Clean Install

    I have a neighbour who was having lots of problems with El Capitan, including Safari and other OS X applications that wouldn't open. We backed up his computer using Time Machine on a Time Capsule, and did a clean install of El Capitan. The computer works fine now, but we now don't have access...
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    Help please! Prohibitory Sign installing Leopard os x after using dban on 2008 imac

    Hi everyone, So I got an imac from work after we upgraded all of the computers. Its a mid 2008 imac, it was running os x Leopard 10.5.8 prior. Apparently they used DBAN on it to wipe out private/sensitive information. I tried burning a .dmg file for leopard 10.5 installation on my pc laptop...