Thank you Neil. I just found that suggestion online as your email arrived. I shall go to my daughter’s again tomorrow and try that.
If my guesses do not work. Although if I was asked for it twice at the start of transfer, it would be hard to type the wrong one twice ? > On 19 May 2020, at 7:24 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > First off I would probably try any of the obvious ways you might have > mis-entered it – it will be simpler/easier to correct the wrong password if > you can actually log in with the wrong password to correct your error. > However,I think you only get three tries… > > Assuming you cannot “guess” what you entered, if the iMac has another User > Account, with admin privileges, you can login as that user and then change > the password on her account using system preferences. > > Otherwise Google comes up with many suggestions but these Apple support > articles seems to cover various methods: > https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mh35902/mac > <https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mh35902/mac> > https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202860 > <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202860> > > However, I also saw this > https://www.cleverfiles.com/help/recover-mac-login.html > <https://www.cleverfiles.com/help/recover-mac-login.html> which includes > another method: > Recover Your Mac Login > > To be able to recover your Mac login password, do the following steps: > > 1. Restart your Mac. > 2. While it’s loading back, hold down the Command + R keys until it > boots to recovery mode <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314>. > 3. Once inside recovery mode, click on Utilities at the top menu bar. > Then click on Terminal. > 4. Once Terminal loads, type the command “resetpassword” and hit Enter. > The process is fairly simple, just run through the prompts as if you’ve > forgotten your password, and you should see a list of accounts that can be > used to log into your Mac. You should as well see some other accounts > depending on how your company has it set up. > > NOTE: This will only work if you do not have FileVault and/or a Firmware > password enabled in your Mac computer; or if you need to login via Ethernet > to your Company’s Server or network. > > You can use this process to also reset your password for Mac OS X or if you > have lost your admin password. > > And this https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reset-lost-mac-password/ > <https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reset-lost-mac-password/> also gives a list of > methods (mostly covered above). > > > > Also remember that after resetting the password, you way well end up with > keychain access problems - this is covered in one of the Apple support > articles above at: > https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202860#keychain > <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202860#keychain> > > Note that all the above is just gleaned from the web – I am not endorsing any > particular method & don’t know if any are only appropriate to certain > versions of OSX. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > > Neil > > > From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Stephen > Chape <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 18:24 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: New iMac will not accept Login ? > > Hi folks. > > Just set up my daughter’s brand new iMac today. > Transferred data from her Time Machine (from her old iMac). > > All went well until I tried to login using her usual password. > At the start of set-up I was asked what that should be. > So I typed in the one she would be familiar with (same as the old iMac). > > I guess I may have entered it incorrectly, but I thought it asked for it > twice to confirm. > Is there any way round this please ??? > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - > Settings & Unsubscribe - > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> Regards, Stephen Chape
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