Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread John Panarese
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Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Donna Goodin
--- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 5:08 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing! >&g

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Donna Goodin
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 5:08 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing! > > Hi Esther, > > A

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread John Panarese
n > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 5:08 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing! > > Hi Esther, > > As always, thanks. Happily I think I can find a pair of eyeballs to help me > do this. > Cheers, > Donna

RE: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Kliphton
isionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing! Hi Esther, As always, thanks. Happily I think I can find a pair of eyeballs to help me do this. Cheers, Donna On Jul 16, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Esther wrote: > H Donna, > > If you were really just

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Esther, As always, thanks. Happily I think I can find a pair of eyeballs to help me do this. Cheers, Donna On Jul 16, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Esther wrote: > H Donna, > > If you were really just getting started in your set up, then the easiest > thing to do is to get sighted assistance, and boo

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Alex, Wow!!! Well, the fact that this merited a Wikki page, at least insures me I'm not the only dolt in the world who did this. lol Thanks for the link, I'll give this a try tomorrow. Wish me luck! Cheers, Donna On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > It so happens that someone I

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Esther
H Donna, If you were really just getting started in your set up, then the easiest thing to do is to get sighted assistance, and boot into single-user mode by holding down the "s" key when you power up your Mac. VoiceOver will not work in singlenuser mode. If you don't feel confident doing this

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi, Unfortunately I hadn't gotten quite that far in the set up. Sigh. Thanks, Donna Sent from my iPhone On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Edward Green wrote: > Hi Donna, > > Did you associate an Apple ID with your Mac Mini and does it have Internet > access? If you did, then it should be relative

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Hall
It so happens that someone I know had to bypass the admin password on a Mac recently. He got a very old mac that a school was no longer using, but the school's admin account was still active and he did not get the password. The only thing is, this uses single-user mode, which is basically a comm

Re: Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Edward Green
Hi Donna, Did you associate an Apple ID with your Mac Mini and does it have Internet access? If you did, then it should be relatively straight forward to sort out. When prompted for your password, enter something incorrect three times. THis should bring up a message inviting you to use your Ap

Help with Mac Mini, I did an incredibly bone-headed thing!

2013-07-16 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, A couple of months ago I started setting up the Mac mini for our office. I had to put it aside to turn to other tasks that were more pressing, and when I came back to it this afternoon, it seems I am not remembering the administrative password I set for myself. I know, I know what a mor