If you saved a deleted user’s home folder, you can restore the user and the user’s home folder.
The technique you use depends on whether you saved the home folder as a disk image or a regular folder.
Restore the home folder from a disk image
An article : macOS Sierra: Restore a deleted user
In the empty fields try to enter your I cloud id & password .
Have you turned on file vault ?
Also as per article : macOS Sierra: Encrypt the contents of your Mac with FileVault
WARNING: Don’t forget your recovery key. If you turn on FileVault and then forget your login password and can’t reset it, and you also forget your recovery key, you won’t be able to log in and your files and settings will be lost forever.
And another method is there to reset the password :
How to reset the admin password , if one has forgotten it .
Close all applications & shut down the computer , and plug the charger .
Press command + R + power key simultaneously , don't release the keys until apple logo appears , the bar will load slowly , let it be completed after a while you will enter in recovery mode .if you have enabled firmware password , turn it off .
Take your cursor on top menu bar & click on utilities > open terminal from here & type resetpassword the word is single & no space , all alphabets are small .Click on enter & close the terminal window .
On the screen you will see user name of the account , just select it ( press forcefully on it to get selected ) > click on next on the bottom side .
A rectangular bar appears > enter your new password carefully and click on “ SAVE “. And again go to top menu bar you will see apple logo > click on restart .
You followed the first terminal command to hide your admin name , & to show the hidden user execute the second command .Right .
Hide a user account in the macOS login window
1. Log in as an admin user.
2. Use this Terminal command. Substitute the short name of the user that you want to hide for “hiddenuser”:
sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 1
If you later want to show the hidden user, set the user’s IsHidden attribute to 0 like this:
sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 0
If you want, you can delete the IsHidden attribute instead.
An article : Hide a user account in macOS - Apple Support
In following command+R I can eventually get to Finder and see that my home directly is still there with all the content still present:
"In following command+R I can eventually get to Finder and see that my home directly is still there with all the content still present:
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You were in Restore (6), did you do the restore? Why not?
Restart in Safe Mode.
Also, is "Other" the name of some account on your mac? Or does it mean to choose "other account"? If the latter, then you can probably type the name of your normal account and its password to login.
Thanks for the idea. I restarted in Safe Mode, but it resulted in the same login screen on top of my blurred-out desktop. The only login option I have is an "Other" account; it's not my normal account (which is missing) and it's not a separate Guest or Admin accounts (which I don't have enabled).
I have already manually tried my user name and password, but it's not accepted.
Thanks tygb. Unfortunately I didn't manually use Terminal to hide the account, and I cannot log in at all with any admin account in order to use Terminal to try and unhide the account. My one and only account is missing and attempts to manually login with username and password don't work.
Are you using allow user to reset password using Apple ID or have you deleted your admin account in users & groups unknowingly , if these are the two options please reply or it is wiser to install Mac OS once again.
Thanks Lexiepex. Safe Mode didn't work. When I try to restore from Time Machine, I can find the local backup file for my iMac, but I get the message: "No macOS system backups were found." And... "Only complete backups of macOS appear in the list." I have TB backups going on a regular basis; am totally up the creek because I only have delta backups?
I'm making progress. I have been able to log into my iMac by creating a new Admin account (see link below):
https://www.macissues.com/2014/08/12/quickly-re-create-a-missing-admin-account-o n-your-mac/
When I login and go to System Preferences > Users & Groups, I can confirm the new admin account, but cannot see my still "missing" login account. my account home folder still appears in Finder, but it's not linked to my st login screen.
Any ideas what to do next? Thank you.
I've tried several times. Even though I can sellect the imac's local backup file in TM, I get the message that "no macOS system backups were found" and "Only complete backups of macOS appear in the list".
I've actually tried that several times. Even though I can select the imac's local TM backup, I get a message that no macOS System Backups were found, and that only full/complete backups are displayed in this list. I have incremental updates going all the time, but have never done a full backup since macOS Sierra was installed.
FWIW, I always see an "Other…" account on the login screen.
dialabrain wrote:
FWIW, I always see an "Other…" account on the login screen.
I don't. I believe this has to do with network logins, as when the mac is connected to an active domain server.
User account missing from login screen. Only ligin option is "Other"
