Pat you’re fortunate to have an Apple Tech spend so much time working through all these things and guiding you into the risky territory that Terminal allows.
I have hundreds of passwords and notes kept securely inside 1Password which I find is an excellent product. You can’t however, forget the master password!!! Regards Tim Sent from Tim's iPhone > On 21 Nov 2018, at 3:52 pm, Pat <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Hello, all, > Many thanks to all who wrote back with suggestions — Diana, Susan, Peter, > Tim, Neil. I can log into the computer now. I rang Apple this morning, and > was passed through several people to an Apple technician. After he had tried > making a few new passwords, and getting the same result as me (in other words > — they didn’t work), he guided me through a process using Terminal, and we > finally arriived at the fix. It took about 2 hours to get there, an ordeal. > > But the news is not all good. All my settings and a lot of personal stuff > (Key Chain!) is gone, It seems I have to argue with bossy applications to > replace the info into them. My 3 Mail accounts persistently rejected having > the proper Mail passwords replaced several times. > > I don’t have Time Machine, just a very large backup hard disk and Super > Duper. I do not see any of the Key Chain data — does Super Duper hide it > anywhere? If it is not there, I’m going to have a hard time. > > Apple's automated guide to retrieving passwords needs some urgent > improvement. It is impossible in places to know just which password is to be > retrieved: thel log-in name or Apple ID. In my case, it was the password > specifically to start the computer. > > And I will not be changing the new password any time soon. > > Thanks again, > Pat > > > >> On 21 Nov 2018, at 07:17, Diana & Graham Stevens <diag...@iinet.net.au> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Pat >> >> Why don’t you ring Apple support. They solved my password problem when I got >> no answers. I rang in the late afternoon and got through very quickly. The >> man also sent me the URL so I could find it again plus some other useful >> URLs. >> >> Good luck >> >> Diana >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> >> -- 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>
