Thanks Ronni, believe it or not I managed to crack the password, unbelievable! I guess I am getting into my second childhood and thinking like a 10 year old.
Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 02/09/2012, at 2:34 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi again Adrian, > >> cd /Volumes/Michele lucerne's iPod >> rm iPod_Control/iPodPrefs >> rm -rf iPod_Control/Devices > > > I had not noticed this before I sent my reply. Try not having any spaces in > cd/Volumes/Michelelucerne'siPod > > You might still find the ' (') causes this command to fail > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 02/09/2012, at 1:52 PM, iCloud <adrianske...@me.com> wrote: > >> Good afternoon all, >> >> My grand daughter has managed to lock her iPod screen and does not know the >> password. A search of the net suggests the following should fix the problem >> but I can't get it to work. >> >> Solution to reset screenlock without a format :) >> >> Hi, After a few minutes of looking through my iPod i have discovered a way >> to reset the screen lock. Below is some instructions, Please note that you >> must enable disk mode on the iPod, Enabling it after the screen lock as been >> enabled will still work. >> >> 1. Plug in your ipod to your dock/cable? >> 2. Open up the terminal? >> 3. type: cd /Volumes/NameOfYouriPod? (in this case it is "Michele lucerne's >> iPod") >> 4. type: rm iPod_Control/iPodPrefs >> 5. type: rm -rf iPod_Control/Devices >> 6. Hold the menu button and centre button so it restarts while its connected >> to your mac then remove the cable/dock while its restarting. >> >> Your screenlock should now be reset. It works everytime for me. >> >> >> >> I have pasted the following into Terminal and pressed Return but nothing >> happens >> >> cd /Volumes/Michele lucerne's iPod >> rm iPod_Control/iPodPrefs >> rm -rf iPod_Control/Devices >> >> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Adrian >> >> adrianske...@me.com >> http://www.skehan.id.au/ >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120902/2aeb023e/attachment.htm >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
