RE: Locked out of Mac mini main screen

2020-03-27 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Kingston Parker Sent: Friday, 27 March 2020 10:42 PM To: VIPhone Subject: Re: Locked out of Mac mini main screen On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 2:16:50 AM UTC+1, Nancy Badger wrote: > Nancy Badger, Ph.D > Executive Director of Counseling > Old Dominion University > Sent from my

Re: Locked out of Mac mini main screen

2020-03-27 Thread Kingston Parker
On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 2:16:50 AM UTC+1, Nancy Badger wrote: > Nancy Badger, Ph.D > Executive Director of Counseling > Old Dominion University > Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. > Hi everyone, > My husband has a Mac mini that he has not used for a

Re: Locked out of Mac mini main screen

2020-03-26 Thread 'RobH.' via VIPhone
I had this recently, and it had the good grace to offer a clue... a clue one sets at the outset... and it still took ages to work it out, but did in the end. Setting cryptic clues is almost no clue at all. RobH. - Original Message - From: "'Nancy Badger' via VIPhone" To: Sent: Th

Re: Locked out of Mac mini main screen

2020-03-25 Thread John Panarese
Depending on his version of the operating system, you can try to restart the Mac in recovery mode. Hold the command and r keys together at startup and keep them down. You should be able to access the recovery HD. From there, select, terminal, from the utilities menu and use the resetpassword