Very strange. I changed botth the system admin and my user passwords and neither would work. I'm going to now end up creating a new account and archiving the old data from the previous account. Yuck! I justt don't know what happened here.
On Jul 5, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Dan suggested you use the install DVD and under utilities use the > reset password option. If this does not work for some reason, you can > create a new account and delete the old one. WHen you delete the old > account, it will give you the opportunity to save the contents of the > user account you are deleting. This way you can recover the data. I > recommend you make a backup of the home folder regardless of what you > do as an extra safety measure. > On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Larry Wanger wrote: > >> >> ÎHi, >> >> I'm having a problem with logging in to my Macbook Pro and hope >> someone can offer some help. I'll try to be concise here but this >> is a >> bit of a long story. >> >> 1. For some reason when I turned on my Macbook last week it would not >> boot up. I hear the startup sound and the apple logo appears on >> screen >> but it won't go further. >> 2. After doing some reading it appeared that the best course of >> action >> was to insert the OSX Leopard disk and re-install the OS but not to >> delete the existing contents of the drive. >> 3. I inserted the Mac OSX installation disk, turned off the machine >> and re-started while holding down the C key. >> 4. The OSX installation began and I was able to re-install >> everything. >> 5. The machine re-started after the installation and took mee to the >> usual log-in screen. The screen shows me as the admin user, has my >> picture and my name and asks for the password for the account. This >> is >> the only account on the machine and I am obviously the admin. >> 6. I typed in the password that I had before the system had these >> problems and it would not accept it. I had it reveal the password >> hint >> which is exactly the same as previous. I absolutely do remember the >> password and have used the same one for almost a year now with no >> problems. I conclude the account still exists because my user account >> is still showing at log-in. >> >> I've tried a couple of solutions here, the most promising seemed to >> be >> that you could launch the OSX installation disk again and get to a >> utilities option rather than installing anything. However, I can't >> locate a utilities button anywhere. >> >> Has this happened to anyone and do you have any suggestions about how >> to deal with this. Unfortunately, I have some but not all of the >> contents of this drive backed-up and would seriously rather not end >> up >> having to format it. >> >> Thanks for any help you can offer. >> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
