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locked out of my mac

I’m locked out of my Mac. Password doesn’t work

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 3, 2021 1:45 PM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2021 1:52 PM

Follow the directions at > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

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Mar 3, 2021 1:52 PM in response to Mkrawietz

Follow the directions at > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

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Mar 3, 2021 2:00 PM in response to Mkrawietz

Restart in the Recovery Partition (hold down Command + R on startup) and the open Terminal (located in the menus) and type resetpassword and follow the onscreen prompts.

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