I am trying to upgrade to Yosemite, but somewhere along many passwords, I can't remember my administrator one. The online q&a's were a bit over my head as well.. is there a simpler way to get it changed?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
When I first setup my OSX laptop, my filevault and user login password were the same. At bootup, I only had to login once (with my username and password).I recently changed my OSX password but my filevault / disk encryption password was not changed. Now I have to login twice when I boot up (first with my old pass, then with the new one).Is there any way to change the disk encryption password so I can be in sync with my login password?I tried Disk Util > File > Change Password, but it is greyed out.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Recently brought iMac in for software upgrade. now 10.10.1
After i got home, i realized that the iMac now always asks me to login with my password (which i do). But i would prefer not to have to login/put in password every time. just want my iMac to open as it always had.
I assume i go to system preferences/users & groups. i see i am the current user/administrator. When i click "change password" it says: "*** is using an iCloud password to log in and unlock the screen.
do you want to change your iCloud password or stop using your iCloud password to unlock this mac AND CREATE A SEPARATE PASSWORD?"
Don't want separate or any passwords. Do i just want to click the "change iCloud password" button? Ijust want to log in without a password. How do i do that?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2.9 Ghz Intel Core i7 8GB 1600 MHz
Uploaded MAC 11 as an administrator, the rest of the users can utilize the software but I'm not able to?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I am new to apple, just purchased an iMac off craigslist, and have a personalization question. I was able to change the user name and all that info just fine but when my computer first turns on and I am prompted to log in the previous owner has a text below the apple icon that I would like to change. Right now it says "Daves ********** iMac" well my name is not Dave and I don't care to have that on there every time i go to log in. I have done a lot of searching and found where I can "change login text" but that is for one of the texts, not the one I am trying to figure out.. here is a sample picture, the text I have circled in red is the text I am trying to change, the text saying macbook pro is the only text I have successfully changed. (This is just a picture I got off the inter-web, not my actual login)
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And basically here's where I'm at now:........................
This is a function that was present in Leopard and is now gone in Snow Leopard. Is there any way to enable it? When I wake up my computer from sleep, there's typically another user who's logged in and I can type in my admin user name in the Username box and my password and log in to their account.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)
We had a HDD fail on one of our office Mac laptops (a power pc G4). Apple repaired it and I restored all files etc from a backup. I was the administrator during the restore. Before I could get back, the user changed that account to a standard account and changed the name. Now there is no way to change the account back, because there is no admin to authenticate the change. Anything I can do? I am not an advanced computer/Mac person.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
I have a imac running osc 10.6.8 I just found the disks, i received this as a gift from a relative who passed away I do not know the password. I want to change the admistrator of the computer without loosing all the programs.
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iMac
I am giving my old G4 iMac 20 (OS X 10.4.11) to a relative and have transferred my files; cleared caches, passwords, etc. and setup selected apps, iTunes songs, and iPhoto pictures for the new user. In order to conclude this iMac transfer, I have several questions:
When I change the Mac account to the new user and make her the administrator, what impact on the settings, iTunes songs, iPhoto phones, etc. whenever I delete my account/administrator?
I just inherited an iBook G4 from a friend and would like to change is ownership/administrator information to my own.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I forgot my administrator password how do I recover it?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
iMessage, or message whatever it's called. It's message app but when I try to login shows iMessage screen.Up till last night messages was working fine on my Yosemite Mac, iPod touch and my old iPod touch.
I did the 8.1.2 update on my iPod and when I started my Mac up it asked for an iMessage log in, never did this before. Typed the correct password and it just sits there with the gear wheel spinning beside my Apple id, tried changing DNS, deleted keychain passwords, switched messages off/on on the the other devices as well as iCloud. The other devices still work on the same router. Tried switching from wired, which it usually operates on to wi-fi only and deleted iMessages preferences, nothing.
I don't want to have to loin overtime i start the macbook up.
It stays in the house therefore i have no security risks to warrant a log on
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
We had a HDD fail on one of our office Mac laptops (a power pc G4). Apple repaired it and I restored all files etc from a backup. I was the administrator during the restore. Before I could get back, the user changed that account to a standard account and changed the name. Now there is no way to change the account back, because there is no admin to authenticate the change. Anything I can do? I am not an advanced computer/Mac person.
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Upgraded MacBook Pro to Yosemite and ever since I get repeated keychain prompts, even after entering my keychain password. I have not changed my password, so I need to know how to make this stop.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Ever since Yosemite update, my Login Screen Font displays only [A] [A] [A] [A], but will display normal font in Safe Mode. I've deleted third party apps, and ran disk Utility, but problem persists. Also getting freezes and SLOW performance, Wifi cut-outs, etc. I'm attaching a copy of my diagnostic test ran.
Start time: 12:48:54 12/03/14 Model Identifier: iMac12,1System Version: OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0Time since boot: 6:08 SATA ST31000528AS
FileVault: FileVault master keychain appears to be installed Diagnostic reports
2014-12-02 System Preferences hang 2014-12-02 pkd
[Code]....
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Since installing Yosemite 10.10.1, every time I turn on my MacBook Pro I have to Select User and then login with my password. I don't want this, since I'm the only user and it wastes time. This didn't used to happen before installing Yosemite. I can't find the button in Security and Privacy that turns this off!
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I am getting weird fonts on my Login screen after I updated Yosemite to 10.10. Also there is a pop up screen that says "Messages Agent wants to use the 'login' keychain."
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My Macbook (2012) has been running incredibly slow since I updated to Yosemite. My apps keep crashing, including safari and chrome and I'm sending about 5 reports a day to Apple whenever they crash.
Chrome crashed while I was writing this - it happens routinely.
But my biggest concern is that when I restart my computer, the login screen looks like this:
It says "update needed" where it should have my name and image.
I've found a few solutions on here about turning off the firevault and trying to restart the computer again, but this image was taken on my restart try after made that change. I do know that it says I still have a mavericks update available. I'm not sure how that happened because I updated everything before I moved to Yosemite, but my apps store still says I have an update for Mavericks 10.9.5...
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Until recently I have been able to login one time with a password to get to my desktop. Now I have to login twice. I am running Yosemite, whatever the newest version is. I have checked every setting I can think of to no avail.
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MacBookPro OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I am running OS X Mavericks, and when I want to, let's say, install a Sims 3 game, it asks for my administrator password. Now since someone else owns the computer (and they don't want me to know their password but I can install the games with their permission) I don't know the admin password, and I want to know, is there a way to bypass that admin password without having to reset it to a pass I know? Or do I just have to deal with the fact that I have to ask?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 17 in, 4GB
