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<blockquote data-quote="diesel27blue" data-source="post: 1455981" data-attributes="member: 255893"><p>how did you make out? Try Tricking your Mac into creating a new user account</p><p>Power on or restart your Mac (should work for any Mac OS X system).</p><p>At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode.</p><p>This step is optional, but it’s a good idea because it checks the consistency of the hard disk before moving on. At the prompt, type fsck -fy and press Enter/Return. Wait for the checks to complete before going to the next step.........</p><p>Type mount -uw / and press Enter.</p><p>Type rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and press Enter.</p><p>Type shutdown -h now and press Enter.</p><p> Rather than simply changing the password this one fools the operating system into believing it has never been started before. This means when you restart the machine, it will take you through the entire setup & registration process all over again. Do not worry, all of your pre-existing data is still available. Just continue with this process and do not choose the option to transfer or migrate information to the Mac.</p><p></p><p>Once you’re done, log in with your new admin account and go to System Preferences > Accounts. You may have to click on the lock icon in the lower-left corner before making changes here. You should see your original user account(s) in the left column. Try clicking on one of them to convert it to a standard user account (uncheck “Allow user to administer this computer”) and change the password. You should be able to successfully log in to that account now and access all of your files and programs. If you want, you can log back in with your new admin account and re-check the “Allow user to administer this computer” option in System Preferences to grant admin privileges to the original user again., and pay attention to the spaces!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p></p><p>I dont take any credit for this knowledge just used it myself before I found it by googling.. lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel27blue, post: 1455981, member: 255893"] how did you make out? Try Tricking your Mac into creating a new user account Power on or restart your Mac (should work for any Mac OS X system). At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode. This step is optional, but it’s a good idea because it checks the consistency of the hard disk before moving on. At the prompt, type fsck -fy and press Enter/Return. Wait for the checks to complete before going to the next step......... Type mount -uw / and press Enter. Type rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and press Enter. Type shutdown -h now and press Enter. Rather than simply changing the password this one fools the operating system into believing it has never been started before. This means when you restart the machine, it will take you through the entire setup & registration process all over again. Do not worry, all of your pre-existing data is still available. Just continue with this process and do not choose the option to transfer or migrate information to the Mac. Once you’re done, log in with your new admin account and go to System Preferences > Accounts. You may have to click on the lock icon in the lower-left corner before making changes here. You should see your original user account(s) in the left column. Try clicking on one of them to convert it to a standard user account (uncheck “Allow user to administer this computer”) and change the password. You should be able to successfully log in to that account now and access all of your files and programs. If you want, you can log back in with your new admin account and re-check the “Allow user to administer this computer” option in System Preferences to grant admin privileges to the original user again., and pay attention to the spaces!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont take any credit for this knowledge just used it myself before I found it by googling.. lol [/QUOTE]
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