Most things were backed up on my thunderbolt SSD drive. My Key chain was my i cloud password but it didn't like it. I forget my Apple ID too often because Apple have complicated matters that they want you to have two passwords and I forget my Apple ID because of this.
Kawal. > On 2 Jul 2014, at 12:39 pm, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi there > I have gotten to where when I want to update my computer that I always wait > until I have time to babysit my computer. This is so I won't get any > surprises the next day like you did. It just so happens that I set my > keychain password to be the same thing is my Apple ID so that is what > unlikely that I will forget what it is. Some people say you shouldn't do > that, but I don't want to password myself so much that I protect my computer > against me. > Sincerely, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:04 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu <kawa...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Well, I thought I'd share this with everyone. >> >> Two days ago I installed the latest update for my Mac when I read on this >> list that one had come out. Well, the next day being yesterday, I went to >> work thinking that my Mac had updated as it had restarted the night before. >> When I got back home yesterday, I found that the Mac was still stuck at the >> authentication log in or something like that. When I got it to work finally, >> it wanted a key chain password. It didn't matter what key chain password I >> put in, it didn't like it. So I managed to cancel and put in a new keychain >> password after resetting my keychain but it kept asking for a password >> afterwardds. So a complete install was necessary. Thank goodness that >> Sabahattin (who has joined this list) was able to help me with the command >> line to download and put Mavericks on a flash USB key. >> >> This has prompted me to invest in a Mac mini as well soon so I will have two >> devices as I have lost my Windows machine for now. I wonder what the moral >> of this story is! Not to forget your keychain password? I'll let you all >> judge! >> >> Kawal. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
