After a reboot my password didn’twork anymore.
I tried restting the password following the steps as in the online manual. However after changing the password the computer gives the following error: An internal error occurred.
How to proceed?
Is this the procedure you used?
Boot into Single User Mode and remove a setup file
fsck -fymount -uw /This procedure verifies the file system. You would have gotten warning messages if any problems were found with the file system. I'd expect some warning if there was a problem with the drive. It's still possible to have a bad drive with no warning messages.
The next step is to rebuild the accounts database. What version of macOS do you have? I'll have to look around for how. Rebuilding the database may have changed over the years.
How old is your mac? Harddrives start goin' bad at three to five years. You could get an external drive and install macOS on it.
Do you have backup? if no, and you need to recover your data. See this link:
backing up from the command line via single user mode.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8101803?answerId=32357328022#32357328022
R
Hey Charles,
For example this one: http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/10/forgot-mac-password-how-to-reset-mac-password/
The option to reset (without the CD).
Running through these steps will result in the error.
My guess is it has something to do with the hard drive. It’s less then 1 yr old though.
What manual? Do you have a link? How did you try to change the password. There are several ways that I know about.
R
Thank you! Performing these codes in the Terminal window from the Recovery boot before the resetpassword option worked perfectly.
Super.
R
reset password failed, an internal error occurred