Here you can see all Mac OS X user accounts are listed, new account “TrickyWays” that we have created and “Susan” the old one that we want to recover.Ĭlick on the lock icon to enable previous account “Susan” and reset its password.Įnter the Password of current user account and hit the OK button.Click on “Apple icon” and then “System Preferences.”.Now you can reset the password of your old Mac OS X account using this new account, here is the process. This will create a new administrator account and automatically log into it.Īdvertisement Reset old user account password Fill all entries and hit Continue button. Follow all the wizard instructions, until you see the following screen to create a new account.“Reboot” command will restart the Mac, and you will see the “Welcome wizard” after beautiful welcome messages animation.Now type the following commands one after one and press “Enter” button after each command to execute it individually.Restart the system and hold “Cmd + S” keys from the keyboard until it shows Terminal.
This guide was written using Mac OS X Snow Leopard and also testing on OS X Yosemite as well.Ĭreating new Mac OS X account to recover old account
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So, let’s see how to create an administrator account on Mac while you lost your Mac passwords. If you have forgotten Mac OS X account password, then there is a tricky method which let you create a new administrator account on Mac OS X and through that admin account, you can reset password of the previous account.
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