> I have some photos in the disk, that I would like to retrieve, > particularly photos of my then pregnant wife. It is somewhat important > to us to get those unique photos that we store on that trisquel > computer.
> The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then Do you recall whether you encrypted your disk or home directories when installing Trisquel? If so, you're out of luck without a password. If not, the following might work: You'll need a bootable CD or USB running Trisquel (or another distro). If you don't have one and don't know how to create one, see here.[1] Boot into the CD or USB drive and select "Try Trisquel without installing." Once you're in a Trisquel live session, open the file manager. On the left-hand side of the window you will see a list of media. Hopefully your hard disk will be in there. If the disk is not encrypted, you should be able to click on it and mount it without a password. If that works, you should see a "home" directory. Enter it. There, you should see a directory for each user. If they are not encrypted, you should be able to enter these folders without a password. If that works, copy the files you want to recover onto some other medium. Good luck! [1] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-create-liveusb
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