Thanks, thought not, but the idea of possibly losing stuff was just too awful!
On 22 Jun 2011, at 20:32, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I wouldn't think you would. All you're doing's! changing the pwd. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Southwood" > <[email protected]> > To: "MacVisionaries" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:22 PM > Subject: Will I lose data if I boot from instillation disk? > > >> Hi all, >> >> Ok, so in an attempt to get organised I have partitioned an external hard >> drive ready to use one of the partitions to create a backup of everything on >> my mac (including operating system) using carbon copy cloner. >> >> Everything was going well until ccc asked for my mac password which, >> naturally, I have forgotten! Googling suggests I should boot from the >> installation disks and reset the password that way, but will I lose data >> doing this? >> >> Is there another way of finding my password? I'm the only person using the >> mac so I assume I'm the administrator. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Ellie >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
