I forgot the password on the Mac I just bought on Craigslist. Well... The seller never gave it to me in the first place. Without resetting the computer, is there any way I could reset the password or something? The username is "one" and the password hint is "one". Guess what... "one" isn't the password. -.-
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Drop the seller a message and ask? Just a thought
I did. Called him, no answer. Emailed him, no answer.
Would I need to pay for the OS again? Or anything, for that matter? Nothing was installed afterwards.
You don't make any sense at all, first you say you forgot-then seller didn't give-then you say login is one/one.
I think this is fishy on it's own.
You probably bought a stolen one.
Where did he say it's was $1500.
Edit: Retina MacBook Pro 2.3ghz 16gb RAM $1500, but he didn't say it here.
Not only that, the seller doesn't respond!!!!
And, I said probably.
Edit: I just looked at his last few posts in history, something is strange here, he already started topics on:
What Could I Sell My rMBP For?
Can't Sign Into iMessage on Mac
In the same time span.
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Where did he say it's was $1500.
Edit: Retina MacBook Pro 2.3ghz 16gb RAM $1500, but he didn't say it here.
Not only that, the seller doesn't respond!!!!
And, I said probably.
Edit: I just looked at his last few posts in history, something is strange here, he already started topics on:
What Could I Sell My rMBP For?
Can't Sign Into iMessage on Mac
In the same time span.
I could explain those. The second one is related to this, since I don't know the password. The first one, I just wanted to know how much I could sell it for if I wanted to. Low ballets on Craigslist -.-
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I reiterated the title in the OP. Read.
You should really do a full re-install of the OS. You don't need to log in to the user account to do that as far as I know.
Just reboot your Mac and hold Command-R to boot into recovery mode. You should then be able to do a clean install of OSX without any user accounts being created.
I think this will solve a lot of your issues and it's a good idea anyway when buying a used computer. Who knows what the previous owner had installed.
Just reboot your Mac and hold Command-R to boot into recovery mode. You should then be able to do a clean install of OSX without any user accounts being created.
I think this will solve a lot of your issues and it's a good idea anyway when buying a used computer. Who knows what the previous owner had installed.
If you have Lion or Mountain Lion, do a command-r boot and follow this guide to reset the PW. If you are in a prior version of OS X, boot from the OS DVD and your will see a password reset utility in the Utilities menu of the startup screen.
Damn, was hoping I'd look good with a dashing answer.
You should just restore it, what do you need on that user account anyway?
I would just boot into recovery mode, ERASE and repartition the drive, and then reinstall the os.
Hold CMD-R when you boot the laptop.
When in the recovery tool, open the disk management app.
Erase the drive.
Close disk management app.
Choose reinstall ML.
Done.
Several others have mentioned a reinstall and included links on how to do so. It is very simple and pretty much your one sound solution.