password requested after battery drained??

[creatrix]

Has anyone else had this happen?
I let my battery drain (unintentionally) and the enter password box came up on the screen (after waiting a minute before the dark screen settled) First, I had a few seconds of various shades of grey/black flickering on the screen.
YIKES... just bought this new macBook after my last one's video card gave up the ghost.
I do not have password protection on this home laptop.
Any one else had this happen?
Obviously, I have recharged enough to get back in and send this.

Cheers
Libbie
ps non-geek language preferred. Cheers

 

[chabig]

What's the problem? The battery drained, you recharged it, and restarted the machine normally. It preserved your data. Life's good. It's normal to enter your password when the machine boots.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

I do not have password protection on this home laptop.

"Should" not be possible. You can set up an account with automatic login, where the password isn't required - but there "Should" always be a password. There might be ways to circumvent that, but I would not recommend that since macOS expects that there will be one, you could run into problems.