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Jennifer Dawn

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Jul 10, 2020
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I haven’t used my Mac Book Pro 2013 in awhile and I do not remember my user/administrator password.
Any advice on retrieving, resetting, and/or opening my Mac?
 

Weaselboy

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Jan 23, 2005
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Do a command-r boot to recovery then in the utilities menu launch Terminal. Then enter resetpassword and follow the prompts.

That will get you back in, but you will loose access to your old Keychain saved passwords.
 
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