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Hey,
Yesterday I changed the password to the 1 admin account I then had. Unfortunately I forgot that password since after changing it I went out and got quite ******.
Today I managed to get a second admin account on my MacBook OS X 10.5.6 by doing
mount -uw/
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
in single user mode.
But then the real trouble started. I wanted to delete the first admin account through system preferences but couldn't find system preferences in itself. Also other applications like Neo-Office, Firefox, PhotoBooth, etc were not accessible.
I think this is because I've dragged them out of the applications folder and put them on the desktop of the admin account that is now not accessible.And I can't access that previous admin account now either.
I've tried things like disk repair and software update but nothing seems to work. Even the commands fsck -yf and reboot failed me.
I've got a back-up of the really important stuff like my dissertation but I still have got loads of other stuff like music and movies that I don't want to loose by re-installing OS X (not that it would work since my cd-drive doesn't work anymore). Any idea's on how to handle this?
Thanks in advance,
D
Yesterday I changed the password to the 1 admin account I then had. Unfortunately I forgot that password since after changing it I went out and got quite ******.
Today I managed to get a second admin account on my MacBook OS X 10.5.6 by doing
mount -uw/
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
in single user mode.
But then the real trouble started. I wanted to delete the first admin account through system preferences but couldn't find system preferences in itself. Also other applications like Neo-Office, Firefox, PhotoBooth, etc were not accessible.
I think this is because I've dragged them out of the applications folder and put them on the desktop of the admin account that is now not accessible.And I can't access that previous admin account now either.
I've tried things like disk repair and software update but nothing seems to work. Even the commands fsck -yf and reboot failed me.
I've got a back-up of the really important stuff like my dissertation but I still have got loads of other stuff like music and movies that I don't want to loose by re-installing OS X (not that it would work since my cd-drive doesn't work anymore). Any idea's on how to handle this?
Thanks in advance,
D