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MacBook admin user account is gone
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<blockquote data-quote="tydsxrtxt" data-source="post: 1911385" data-attributes="member: 412634"><p>Hi, I am trying to restore a user account on my MacBook. Normally I have 3 user accounts and a guest account. One user account is the admin and the other 2 are not.</p><p>Recently I was in my admin account and the laptop froze. I waited 15 min and then decided to power it off by long pressing the power button. When I turned the mac back on, I only saw 2 of my user accounts and the guest account on the start screen. The admin account is gone.</p><p></p><p>Normally you can restore a deleted account however you need to use the admin account and password to do this. This is not possible now since mine is deleted. If I log in to one of the 2 non admin accounts and go to users & groups I can see that my admin account is still there with all the files. I just don’t have access to it.</p><p>I’m trying to restore this since I have some files that I want to get back.</p><p></p><p>I tried following the steps in this link:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://appletoolbox.com/mac-user-account-disappeared-fix/" target="_blank">https://appletoolbox.com/mac-user-account-disappeared-fix/</a></p><p></p><p>However when I type <strong>/sbin/mount -uw / </strong>I get<strong> remounting system volume /dev/disk1s5 in read/write mode</strong></p><p></p><p>And when I type in <strong>rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone </strong>I get override <strong>-w---r—root/wheel for</strong> <strong>rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone? </strong>I typed in yes and pressed enter. Next I get <strong>rm: /var/db/.AppleSetupDone: read only filesystem</strong></p><p></p><p>Next reboot just starts up the mac normally. I still see the 2 user accounts.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is basically the same approach but I also get the same outcome. It just starts up normally:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164331/i-dont-have-administrator-account-on-my-mac" target="_blank">I don't have administrator account on my mac</a></p><p></p><p>The MacBook is from mid-2012 and runs macOS Catalina 10.15.6</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Does somebody know what I should do?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tydsxrtxt, post: 1911385, member: 412634"] Hi, I am trying to restore a user account on my MacBook. Normally I have 3 user accounts and a guest account. One user account is the admin and the other 2 are not. Recently I was in my admin account and the laptop froze. I waited 15 min and then decided to power it off by long pressing the power button. When I turned the mac back on, I only saw 2 of my user accounts and the guest account on the start screen. The admin account is gone. Normally you can restore a deleted account however you need to use the admin account and password to do this. This is not possible now since mine is deleted. If I log in to one of the 2 non admin accounts and go to users & groups I can see that my admin account is still there with all the files. I just don’t have access to it. I’m trying to restore this since I have some files that I want to get back. I tried following the steps in this link: [URL]https://appletoolbox.com/mac-user-account-disappeared-fix/[/URL] However when I type [B]/sbin/mount -uw / [/B]I get[B] remounting system volume /dev/disk1s5 in read/write mode[/B] And when I type in [B]rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone [/B]I get override [B]-w---r—root/wheel for[/B] [B]rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone? [/B]I typed in yes and pressed enter. Next I get [B]rm: /var/db/.AppleSetupDone: read only filesystem[/B] Next reboot just starts up the mac normally. I still see the 2 user accounts. This is basically the same approach but I also get the same outcome. It just starts up normally: [URL="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164331/i-dont-have-administrator-account-on-my-mac"]I don't have administrator account on my mac[/URL] The MacBook is from mid-2012 and runs macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Does somebody know what I should do? Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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