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Authored by: ghwelker on Nov 08, '13 04:45:09AM

I just upgraded to "Mavericks" and have 3 major issues with it:

First and foremost I lost my IMac admin. ID and password.

After trying everything I could, I still can't recover them, including using UNIX, as recommended on these sites:

http://www.hackmac.org/tutorials/decrypt-os-x-user-account-passwords/

http://www.hackmac.org/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-administrator-account/

http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Lost-Admin-Password-on-Mac-OS-X

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/10/forgot-mac-password-how-to-reset-mac-password/

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718[/B]

http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167855/installing_mountain_lion_what_you_need_to_know.html

No matter how hard I try, it just doesn't work.

I thought I had when I used "resetpassword", but when I used it again it said: "Please use install disk which doesn't exist now".

Also, Safari 7.0 starts to come up, then quits. Only pace it worked was in "Recovery" mode.

Likewise when I want to print to a PDF file, "Preview" starts, then quits. It seems to run on it's own!

There may be "200" new and better features, but I haven't got to them yet!

I wanted to keep Mountain Lion, but wasn't given that choice on one of my two external drives, because they both were treated like backup drives!!

Any advice is deeply appreciated.

Thanks,

Glenn Welker

ghwelker3@comcast.net



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