I have couple question that I would like to know.
1. Is there any way that I can give passwords to a specific folder so that everytime I want to open it, it will prompt for a password?
2. Same thing as number 1, but this one is the application which need to be locked using password.
how to reset the password once the computer is locked. I changed it yesterday and I can't remember what I wrote.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.3)
I'm locked out of my computer. I set my iMac to require a password for accounts. Now when I start up 3 accounts appear: my name, my name with an A and guest. My admin. password won't work on any of them. What should I do?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I use an external hard drive for Time Machine backups and to store some larger video files in a folder called Videos. The Videos folder on the external drive is now locked and I can't unlock it. I go to Get Info, hit the lock icon and enter my password, but the "Locked" checkbox is greyed out in the General section. In the Sharing and Permissions section, instead of displaying my name, it says "Fetching . . ." and I can't change the Privilege from "Write Only".Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I can't seem to edit any pictures with Preview anymore since I upgraded to Lion. Every time I try to save an image after resizing or whatever, it says the file is locked. If I check the info of the file the "locked" checkmark is unchecked. And I have all the permissions to the file. Tried everything, switched the "lock after 2 weeks" thing of in Time Machine (even though tha would probably not help: images I took today are still "locked" in Preview), tried copying them and then saving them, and tried to lock them and then unlock them, but I can't seem to edit and save them.
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This is a new disc that I may have installed without due care to permissions/ownership when I formatted it.
details: g5 dual 1.8 10.5.6
I've just purchased a MacBook Pro a few months ago. There are sometimes I lend my MBP to my friends. However, there is a few applications I don't want them to open without my permission (such as iPhoto, iTunes). I can simply hide it away, but there are some know how to find it. I really wanna create a password for those apps. Is there any way?
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MacBook Pro
I would like to enter my password in everytime I open the mail application (for security purposes). How do I do this?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have problems sending mail to people (not everybody) since Google obliged me to change my password on my Google account (attempt breaking-in apparently).
It took me a long time to re-configure everything, I choose the "double" protection from Google (with sms), and my Mac asked me this morning to give several times my Apple ID password, for iMessage, Face Time, etc...)
Now it's not possible to send a mail to my office. It is when I send it via website of Google, NOT when I use "Mail" on my Mac.
This is the message (partly in dutch) :Â Â Application-specific password required. Learn more at [URL] .....
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Not infrequently I get an error message on my iMac's screen saying an application (especially "syncdefaultsd" and "Safari") wants the "login" password. I don't know what this is? If I use the password I would use to login manually the error screen rejects it.If I click the error message a couple of times it goes away. Nothing seems to change with the computer's operation, but it doesn't reassure me that something may be going onside 10.7.3 What is the password the application wants and where can I find it?Â
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24, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 4GB DDR2 RAM
I was looking to modify OSX's main menu, y'know, top left, with the apple? I was trying to remove a button.
I had activated the root user account, and successfully modded the menu to add characters to one of the buttons. The file I edited was in here:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Resources/English.lproj/ (after this I get fuzzy)/SystemMenu/Objects.xml
I don' remember the exact name, nor do I have access to it... as once I had successfully modded the menu the first time, I tried commenting out the menu object altogether in the XML file, and when I rebooted, I couldn't log on!
Whenever I clicked a user and started typing in the password box, no *** password characters were displayed, and the computer would go back a step, and ask me to chose a user again! The keyboard was working, as I was able to go to the Boot manager and choose to boot off a CD. I am reinstalling right now to fix the issue (the computer needs to be used ASAP), but I am curious as to what the problem may have been. It seems like with all the menu mods out there, this modification would not be unusual.
I am locked out of my Macbook. I inadvertently threw a very important file in the trash and shut down the computer. Now I can't get back in. Even when I use the master password it sends me to a dialogue box to create a new password but won't accept anything. If I have to reinstall my system that's ok but is there any way to retrieve my files, photos, etc..
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When I did that, I got the colored pinwheel and it's been sitting like that for the last 20 minutes.
This is my first Mac and I don't know much about them so it figures it would happen to me. What should I do?
I somehow disabled access to the hard drive of my MacBook Pro.... I shut it down and now it's just displaying a grey screen with the Apple logo..
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MacBook Pro
I was trying to lock a file with finder. and somehow I have lock Apple Documents. When I clicked on Finder. Under PLACES, I used to get a list, as follows. Desktop. My User Name. Applications, and Documents. I no longer have Documents in this list. my question is "How do I get it back
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My DVD Region is locked to Region 2 and now I can't watch films from Region 1!I've tried VLC and that doesn't work.
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
It seems i can't figure out why my apple id was locked. So i think i will create a whole new id and email. Would this be advisable?
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g5 imac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
I just put a 25 dollar card on to my account and was then prompted by two security questions while trying to make a purchase. I did not put these on here and on further review I found these were added about a month ago. I need to get the questions off in order to make a purchase for the first time on my new mac. Anybody got a solution?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOur Mac Pro crashed, and upon reboot, both the internal raid as well as the external firewire drive that happened to be plugged into the machine at the time, are both 'locked' and we cannot unlock them. We've tried toggling the 'user and permission' choices from the 'custom' setting that they are now showing to read/write... and it just snaps back to 'custom'!
Same if we try to change to just READ or just WRITE...etc...nothing...
Just a gray icon of a LOCK under the icons of the drives, and a warning anytime I try to access them, saying I don't have permission to do so.
I even unplugged the firewire drive and plugged it into another computer and it does the same thing!
And I even made a new ADMIN and tried changing it with that, to no avail.
Everytime I look at either of these drives, those 'users and permissions' toggles are back at 'custom' and they just won't relent!
Oh, and I also flashed PRam and 'Repaired permissions' on the boot drive [yes, the boot drive is working fine]
I need the media that is on these drive... a ton of video media on the internal raid, specifically... So I can't just repartition them from boot disk.
