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My other mac just went out on me, so I bought another used mac. It works great-BUT.
I started to set up my own stuff under the old admin called 'USER'. I then realized it would be a lot faster to plug in my Seagate backup and import all of my 'stuff'.
In doing this all seemed to work fine, however I now have 2 admins. I want to get rid of the old one 'user' as admin, and just have me as an admin,and the other a standard. However with no password I cannot get into 'user' account to do this.
The old owner is trying to help me but its not working. He did set up a new PW when he cleaned out the computer but it will not work.
Its very confusing having 2 admins,and 1 full account and one only half finished. I have tried and tried, read and read, but can find no way to set the old admin as a standard account and mine as the only admin without the old password.
I'm sure you will have a million questions and this maybe hard to understand,but I really want to get rid of the other admin.
Hopefully someone can make sense enough of this to help me.
mac os high sierra
version 10.13.3 beta (17d46a)
iMac 27” late 2012
memory 32 gb 1600mht DDR3
startup disk macintosh hd
Almost identical to my old one but more storage and more ram
I started to set up my own stuff under the old admin called 'USER'. I then realized it would be a lot faster to plug in my Seagate backup and import all of my 'stuff'.
In doing this all seemed to work fine, however I now have 2 admins. I want to get rid of the old one 'user' as admin, and just have me as an admin,and the other a standard. However with no password I cannot get into 'user' account to do this.
The old owner is trying to help me but its not working. He did set up a new PW when he cleaned out the computer but it will not work.
Its very confusing having 2 admins,and 1 full account and one only half finished. I have tried and tried, read and read, but can find no way to set the old admin as a standard account and mine as the only admin without the old password.
I'm sure you will have a million questions and this maybe hard to understand,but I really want to get rid of the other admin.
Hopefully someone can make sense enough of this to help me.
mac os high sierra
version 10.13.3 beta (17d46a)
iMac 27” late 2012
memory 32 gb 1600mht DDR3
startup disk macintosh hd
Almost identical to my old one but more storage and more ram