It is easy to restore or import your Contacts or Mail Address Book with Mac OS X from a backup copy. If you use iCloud to store and sync your Contacts you may have fewer reasons to export and save a backup for your personal devices.

We recently bought a used iMac, (iMac7,1 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Build 8S2167), from a garage sale. When I plugged it in I saw that the previous owner didn't factory reset it. He left his admin account registered with password, so I can't just erase his account and make a new admin account. Apart from this it limits me to some programs I'd like to install. I don't have the installation disc I need (as read looking around through other forums).

Filezilla server old version. And Command R is not working for me on startup. (or Control R since I'm using a Windows keyboard). I've read that I can download a digital version of the installation program.

Can I start it up from a USB? As i do not have 'FireWire' or another Mac. If so can I have a link to the right torrent I'm looking for? What are the steps I need to make this work.? I have little to no knowledge about Macs, this is my first Mac. You should have purchased a new iMac!

While your Mid 2007 iMac will support OS X El Capitan it will not support macOS Sierra, coming this Fall. It also probably only has 4 GB RAM and IMO OS X El Capitan runs poorly on only 4 GB RAM although YMMV. If you're near an Apple Store then take it there, they'll install OS X for you. Otherwise you'll need to have an 8 GB Flash Drive and a friend that has a Mac that can download the OS X Installer legitimately, not a torrent, and create the USB Installer from the legitimately downloaded bundle on Apple-branded hardware. – Jun 30 '16 at 23:22 •. Emerald, amigo: Let's get your Mac working for you: • Reboot the machine, holding down the appropriate keys on your windows keyboard to effectuate an Apple COMMAND-s.

Two keys here, the 's' for single-user, and whatever key maps to the COMMAND, or APPLE key. If all goes well, then a nerd-screen, like a DOS prompt or UNIX shell will appear instead of the normal boot process. Free general drafting software for mac. • Please execute the fsck as it is suggested above your command prompt. Should be something like /sbin/fsck -fy • Let's mount the root partition in read write mode: /sbin/mount -uw / • Carefully delete the one file in the way of your enjoyment of your new Mac -- no re-installation shenanigans required: rm -f /var/db/.AppleSetupDone • Proper restart: sync; shutdown -r now Next, create your new admin account, as if this was the first time you ever used your new Mac. I up voted this because it's an easy way to resolve the immediate issue. That said though, running Mac OS X Tiger is ill-advised as there are numerous security flaws in various software components of the OS that cannot be fixed as the version of the OS is no longer supported and hasn't be for many years. It can't even support a secure web browser and will not work with many commonly used web sites and will most likely not work with e-commerce sites.