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From: David Brooks <BDB@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: What does "Reinstall macOS" do, exactly?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:47:12 +0100
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On 23/08/2024 13:21, T i m wrote:
> On 23/08/2024 12:50, David Brooks wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>> If you had any idea how an OS / filesystem / preferences work you 
>>> could answer it for yourself.
>>>
>>> If you owned a computer and were doing something like re-installing 
>>> the OS for a specific reason then found an online forum and posted to 
>>> it asking such a question, you would sound like a vegetarian asking 
>>> if cauliflower is vegan.
>>>
>>> So you have a computer, have reinstalled the OS and found it doesn't 
>>> delete your personal files and are asking why it didn't also delete 
>>> something you believe to be malware?
>>
>> =
>>
>> Please confirm that that is the exact reply you would have posted in 
>> response to the person who originally asked the question.
> 
> No, 

Thanks.

> I wouldn't have included the 'honest' (as you would call them) bits 
> in my first reply but I would after reading their reply to people who 
> had tried to answer ther question honestly and accurately:
> 
> "No, it doesn't install the system that came with the Mac when it was 
> new. This is a 2010 iMac with Sierra installed, but it came with Snow 
> Leopard. I reinstalled Sierra. –
> brendon-ai
> Commented Mar 19, 2017 at 13:32"
> 
> Can you see why that reply is that of a stupid twat or troll (or 
> possibly just on the spectrum)?
> 
> Was it you perchance as it very much fits your MO and false sense of 
> entitlement?

No, it wasn't me.

I found it by chance when looking for a suitable 'test' question to 
trigger controversy - the Apple Mac is a magical place for malware to
hide if folk can be persuaded to deliberately load and authorise suspect 
software.