Forgot Mac Password? Reset it How to

Author: Rob Papallo
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This is a video on how to recover or restore your administrator password on your Mac running on OSX. I use Tiger 10.4.3 in this video but will work on Snowlepord and Lion as well. Recovering the password is a hassle so i just prefer to wipe it. Step 1: Boot up your Mac and wait for everything to load, then press the power button and select Restart and when the screen either goes blue or when you hear the boot sound, hold down the Command + S keys and wait for Terminal to start on boot. Step 2: Once terminal boots, type the following command with no quotes "fsck -fy" and hit the Return or Enter key. This checks your file system allow this to run until it prompts you for the next command. Step 3: When its time for the next command type the following "mount -uw /" again no quotes. It should finish and prompt you for the next command right away. Step 4: The next command is this "rm /var/db/.applesetupdone" again NO QUOTES and then hit Enter or Return and that as well should finish in about a second. Step 5: Type "reboot" no quotes into the terminal and hit Enter or Return and allow your system to reboot. once it does go through the setup and make a new user account and select "use files from other Partition on this drive" to recover your files. and then just do the rest and your set to go with a new Administrative password. NOTE: BACK UP YOUR FILES FIRST BEFORE YOU DO THIS JUST TO BE SAFE!!!!!!!!! Be sure to check out my new Blog site which has everything up to date and new post every 3 Days and also rate comment and subscribe to my channel and i will gladly love you forever :) with lots of hugs and kisses..... uhhhh fuck that was to gay and weird. OH WELL!! Back to the videos. heres the link to the Blog and also my own Website Below Blog: http://d3athrain333.blogspot.com/ Website: http://d3athrain333psphelp.weebly.com/

Comments

  1. Thanks, i had to clean up an 2nd gen iMac and she'd not been given the password, now i can return a nice cleaned up iMac.
  2. I'm out of your way loool thanx
  3. Thank youuuuuuu
  4. The apple+s no worky...
  5. Must you have the disc to do this and will it work on a iMac g5?
  6. thank you so much!!!! ive had a imca g4 for two years i found in the trash and this actually worked!!!!
  7. It doesn't ask me either to shut down sleep etc.. :/ all it does is shuts its self off completely. Plz help
  8. Thank you! You saved me hours of research. Happy Holidays and thank you for taking the time to share your work with us.
  9. It didn't work!!
  10. ty is ok
  11. Hey, was very helpfully, thxs...
  12. @TheTyrantValvatorez you win nothing