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Jul 3, 2015 10:13 AM in response to Ratbattyby D.Cohen,I think you are talking about your account password.
The instructions on these support pages will help you:
OS X: Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password - Apple Support
Change or reset a user account password on your Mac - Apple Support
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Jul 3, 2015 12:08 PM in response to D.Cohenby Ratbatty,Yes, it is the user account. This is (yet) connected to iCloud.
This is where I get confused. Your link says:
>If you don't know your current password
>If you forgot your user account password, start up your Mac and try to log in.
But it never asks me to log in. If I reset the Mac it logs itself in automatically, without ever asking me to login. I am right there on the desktop. Which makes me think there is no password. Only when I do the update, it asks me for a password.
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Jul 3, 2015 1:00 PM in response to Ratbattyby BDAqua,It can be set to automatically login any user, PW or not, but later OSxes will be a problem if you really do not have a password.
What version of OSX are you on?
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Jul 4, 2015 6:31 AM in response to BDAquaby Ratbatty,>It can be set to automatically login any user, PW or not,
Thank you, that is helpful to know. I guess that must be what is happening here.
>What version of OSX are you on?
It's currently on 10.4.7, I would like to bring it as up to date as possible. Ideally all the way to Yosemite so I can use iCloud Drive Photos to sync the photo collection with a different machine. It is an older Mac that has not been connected to the Internet for a long time. I know Apple stop supporting newer operating systems on old Mac, but I could not find the list which says how far up the upgrade path each model of Mac can go. This is an old iMac, with a 2.16 Ghz Core 2 Duo and 1Gb of RAM. So I suspect I am not going to get Yosemite, but I need to update as far as I can to get all the bug fixes, that's blocked without a password at the moment.
From your description I need to try the password recovery link (which I will do next week). I am not hopeful of that being successful. I assume what I have to do in that case is back up the data and reinstall the OS from scratch.
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Jul 4, 2015 10:09 AM in response to Ratbattyby BDAqua,In 10.4.x,open System Preferences>Accounts, does it say admin under your name?
To see how far your Mac can go OS wise...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
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Jul 6, 2015 12:55 PM in response to BDAquaby Ratbatty,>does it say admin under your name?
Yes it does.
>Hardware Overview:
I have that bit. The bit I am missing is the chart that says if you have such and such a Mac you can go up to Lion, or Yosmite, or whatever. I am sure I once saw a webpage with such a chart, I just cannot find it again.
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Jul 6, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Ratbattyby BDAqua,You can post that bit, or look it up here for one...
http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_capability/mac-specs-by-machine-model-machine -id.html