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From: T i m <eternal@spaced.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: What does "Reinstall macOS" do, exactly?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:21:28 +0100
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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, 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?

Cheers, T i m