Hi, A number of things to note for you:
• Maybe just a typo, but in the Terminal command, you need a dash before the rf in order for that command to work. • Are you trying to remove the .applesetupdone file while in Recovery mode? If not, files like the .applesetupdone have a period or dot in front of them which make them invisible to the ls command unless logged in as root or using the sudo command. sudo will do you no good in this case though since you don’t know the original Admin password. If you’re attempting this while in Terminal after starting from the Recovery partition, then that’s odd. • Regarding re-installation of 10.9, no installation DVD’s are required. You can accomplish this from the Recovery partition as long as you enter an Apple ID that has 10.9 Mavericks in it’s purchase history. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Dec 16, 2014, at 15:44, Matthew J <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am not a strong mac user, although my windows knowledge is quite good. A > friend of mine has come into possession of a macbook pro 2013 or 2014 not > sure, running 10.9 and she asked if I could put windows on it, since she > cannot handle mac either. > Anyway, her dad used the mac for a while and has put a password on it. I can > log in, but cannot use parts of bootcamp assistant as the password prompt > comes up. He cannot recall the password. > I have tried: > 1. Going into recovery mode, terminal and using the “resetpassword” > command. This has failed since vo says that it is launched in the background, > but I cannot get to it in any way. > 2. I have tried to remove the .applesetupdone file, as recommended by a > few websites I googled, from /var/db. > I did the following > Diskutil mount and mounted S02 > Changed to /volumes/Macintosh\ Hd/var/db > And rm rf .applesetupdone > This did not work and an ls of the /var/db directory showed no such file. > > So how can I get this mac to work? I will reinstall OSX if I can, but I have > no startup DVD so no clue how to go about this…also no blank DVDs lol. > I just need to get access to this thing and any assistance you can recommend > would be amazing. > > Thanks all > > Matt > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
