Yes you will lose something but it is not data. What you will lose is access to the APple Keychain that holds all of your stored passwords forMail, Safari, WebKit Skype and probably other tools too.
Jonathan On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Eleanor Southwood wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
