Filevault corrupted. Can't log in. TM won't restore. Am I up a creek?
Here's my situation:
I run almost all of my data on filevault and I backup regularly with TM.
I took mac into Apple Store to repair unrelated hardware problem. When it was returned, the tech said that the hard drive was corrupted and, at a minimum, I'd have to format at restore with Time Machine. No problem, I thought.
So I restored my most recent backup and rebooted. When I try to login to my filevaulted main account, I get an error "Cannot log in to (my account) at this time: Logging into the account failed because an error occurred" (very helpful, I know).
Anyway, I created a separate admin account in the event that something happened with my FV'ed account.
I read that I could possibly mount my sparsebundle and recover my precious files.
So I logged into my alternate account and tried to do hdiutil attach on my sparsebundle and get the following message:
hdiutil: attach: extra image argument "Bertha/Users/(me)/(me).sparsebundle" - "/Volumes/Zimbabwe/Backups.backupdb/cattleprod/2009-09-18-030746/Bigger" already specified
I'm not really familiar with terminal. Am I headed down the right path. If so, what's my next move? If not, what should I do instead?
My main objective is to retrieve my files. Although it would be nice to not have to reconfigure mail, reinstall all software, etc.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
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EDIT: It looks like the terminal error I'm getting may have to do with the fact that in the middle of my command, the name of my HDD ("Bigger Berth") has a space in it. Any ideas? I don't really like messing around in terminal w/o a clue. Don't want to overwrite the only copy of my files.
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Click the "Edit..." or "Join..." button at the bottom right.
Click the "Open Directory Utility..." button.
Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.
Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.
When I do these steps, I don't see the Enable Root User option (or even an Edit menu, for that matter).
I enabled it and set the password via terminal. Am I now logged in as root?
When you say
Log in as root and go to the folder /users/username where username is the name of your main user. inside will be the sparse bundle with the home directory.
I'm not sure if I'm logged in as root, but when I go to the main (FV-using) user, I don't see a sparsebundle. I don't see it in any of the TM backups either. Earlier I clicked "Get Info" on the FV /users/ folder for my main account and enabled Read/Write for 'everyone' I can see two apparently unencrypted folders, but nothing else.
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Can't log in after recovery from time machine
We had to replace the disk on my daughter's MacBook Pro. We restored her data from Time Machine on an external drive. After completion the system brought up the login screen. In addition to her account, there's one for me and one for my wife. All of them appeared but none of our passwords work. The password hints are correct, but we can't log in. Help!
First, make sure caps lock is not on.
Another reason why the password might not be recognized is that the keyboard layout (input source) has been switched without your realizing it. You can select one of the available layouts by choosing from the flag menu in the upper right corner, if it's showing, or cycle through them by pressing the key combination command-space or command-option-space. See also this support article.
If the user account is associated with an Apple ID, and you know the Apple ID password, then maybe the Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password. In OS X 10.10 and later, this option also works with FileVault, but only if you enabled it when you activated FileVault. It's not retroactive.
Otherwise*, start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities window appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar at the top of the screen—not from any of the items in the OS X Utilities window.
In the window that opens, type this:
resetp
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window opens. Close the Terminal window to get it out of the way.
Select the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected. You won't be able to do this if FileVault is active.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Follow the prompts to reset the password. It's safest to choose a password that includes only the characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9.
Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
You should now be able to log in with the new password, but the Keychain will be reset (empty.) If you've forgotten the Keychain password (which is ordinarily the same as the login password), there's no way to recover it.
*Note: If you've activated FileVault, this procedure doesn't apply. Follow instead these instructions.
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