I notice that the advanced options in the Accounts prefpane include the ability to change an account's short name. Has anyone been brave enough to try this? How did it go?
View 13 Repliesi have tried searching for answers but still no luck. im kinda scared mdealing with the terminal but have tried a few but to no avail.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
i am trying to get a number of things straightened out now that i have moved to mac and am wondering if there is any utility to upgrading to lion before changing my short user name [URL] or buying a new laptop. i think the new laptop will happen within the next two month and moving to lion is needed to keep my mobileme account (and some sync functionality). ideally i would like to PORT settings to the new laptop but if it is advisable or only possible to get privacy by re-installing i am willing to do this.Â
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Mac Pro, iOS 5.1.1
I have a new macbook pro that did not have a disk, OS X lion 7.3.4 was pre installed so how can i change the administrators name and password, it did not migrate properly from my hard drive.., now there is some mysterious administrator name and or password??
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I forgot my password to get into my computer and I lost the disc to restart my password. What can I do in order to access my computer?
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MacBook Pro
just purchased my imac today, switch on and followed the setup, it wanted a password so I put one in. Now it keeps saying wrong password, but I know it is the right, and only one I use? I do not have a DVD or CD, How can I re-set my password?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am wanting to add a new user group with an ID of 1000, and move my main account into that group, then update everything that has the old GID with the new one. This is so that I can share files easier with another UNIX system I use without having to tweak the permissions for each file. I've done quite a bit of searching in the past couple days, but all I can seem to come up with are old, outdated instructions that don't work on OS X anymore.Â
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15" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 4 Gigabytes RAM, 500 Gigabyte HDD, 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo Proces
I forgot my administrator password and I dont have the Install disk, how can I reset the password?
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iMac
I have changed my apple ID how do I change my Iclound account to suit the new apple ID
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iPhone 4
How do I reset my lost login account password on Macbook Pro OS 10.7.4.
Why is there no community checkbox for OS 10.7.3 or 10.7.4 when 10.8 is due within days?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), Sole User (Admin)
I had to change my email from a yahoo account to gmail. How can I change my iCloud ID to match that new email.
I can't find any place to change the email address in iCloud.
I am running Yosemite on my iMac computer.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
My iMac (10.5.7) is currently set up with me as the Admin user. I know that this is not recommended but it's been like this for a while and I'm considering setting up an Admin user and dropping my account down to a standard account. Is this likely to cause me any problems with the applications that have been installed over the months or is there anything I need to watch out for when doing this?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a very important email which i wish to recover.I changed my account in mail client, by deleting my exsisting pop account and adding a new imap account.My new imap account now has only messages from 5 days old. The email which i would like to recover is upto a few months old, I beginning to panic as I feel i may have done something i shouldn't of, and that particular is email very valuable.Is there a way to get it back? Yes i do have back ups, but my external hard drive decided to blow up on me at the worst time.I have also checked my server for that account and they have told me my pop account would have deleted emails once downloaded. I am with bluehost if that means anything.
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I'm about to switch to a different Mac, and I need some help with cleaning out my old one and setting up my new one. Are there any websites which give good information on transferring mail accounts/files to the new mac and safely cleaning out the old computer?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've recently started work with a new company and the previous employee has left, but has setup the adminstrative account on the work computer. When asked for a password, I don't know what he used. My boss and I have gone through some various passwords he used but none work. What are my options?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been reading the discussions and trying to get my email on my Outlook to work. I can receive emails on my iphone and ipads, but no longer on my Outlook. I have already moved my account from mobileme to icloud.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
So I took an account photo when i recently installed leopard at the start up...when it's creating the account and all of that stuff...
I was messing around with Photo Booth, and clicked the account photo button, and it replaced the old one that i like with a new one...
How can i get my old one back? where was it located? I have made time machine backups, so maybe if i knew where the old photo is stored at, i could retrive it?
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MacBook
Mac OS X (10.5.7)
Up till now, all the family have been using just one user account on our iMac. (OK, I now know that's not a good idea!) I'm now going to be working from home so have set up a new user as Work. I've been using an IMAP mail service in Mail on the family user account and I've now set it up on the work account. If I delete the IMAP account from Mail in the family user account, will this delete my mail off the IMAP server so I cannot access it on the wrok user account?
View 1 Replies View Relatedcan't seem to find anything out there that will change the Leopard Doc to look just like Tiger's old doc?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure why, but there seems to be a void of information regarding changing the menu bar color in Leopard. I've searched here, but seem to find only a single recommendation: MenuShade (which I understand is buggy with Leopard). Most of the other discussion involves changing the transparency of the menu bar, or changing the color of icons in the menu bar.
Two questions:
1) Is there some reason this isn't more commonly discussed? I would think this would be a very common request.
2) How can one change the color of the menu bar?
Been a while since I've been here. I searched and found basically nothing, which really surprised me because I remember seeing this topic discussed way back sometime. But anyways, how do I change my login password on Leopard? I remember that's not the easiest thing to do, apparently.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just installed Snow Leopard, and immediately I noticed that everything was darker. I had to adjust the gamma to get it to look normal, but things seem a little too bright now. Also in Adium, it messed up my fonts. My text is so small while my received messages are normal size, and I can't seem to get my sent message text to be the same size as my received message text. There are other small things too, but it's annoying and I'd like my old configs back, is there any way or do I just need to put up with it?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedMy dock keeps returning to previous setting. It simply throws out added Applications and changing the order back to how they were before. I deleted the dock.list thing in preferences which made it worse. Now i only have the original Apps in my dock.
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G5, Mac OS X (10.5.2), uptodate
does anyone know if there is a application like shapeshifter that changed the appearance of the top menubar?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt's been awhile, I used Leopard back when it first came out and I remember the only way back then was to change the .PNG files... but I don't remember where the location is and I don't have those files anymore. I'm not trying to make it 2D, I'd like to retain the 3D look but with black glass. What's the best solution? Forgive me too, I tried searching but the keyword "dock" is in about 30 million threads.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have no idea how I ended up with the name I did in my Home Folder. It is driving me batty. How can I change it?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI accidentally used an old Leopard Dock application to attempt to change my Dock skin, and it screwed everything up. I borrowed another Mac and copied the Dock app from Core Services and replaced mine, but there's a white line across the bottom of the dock still. [URL]. I know I shouldn't have been messing with it in the first place, I knew things had changed between Leopard and Snow Leopard, but I did anyway, and now I don't know what to do.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am currently running 10.5.8, and I have changed my default icons. I love this feature, and this web page will show you how to do it. [URL:...] I am about to upgrade to Snow Leopard soon, and I am wondering if anyone else knows if it will still work? I quite like my 'glass icons' as my defaults.
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