I forgot my password for my Macbook Air!!

Please help i have changed my usual password and i cant remember my new password for my mac!

With Lion, restart your computer and hold both the Command and R keys.  On the menu bar, choose Terminal.  When Terminal opens there will be a cursor, you type:
resetpassword
And then press Enter.
You will then have a window, Reset Password, choose your user ID, and enter the new password in the two fields that appear, leaving the hint field blank.  Click Save.
Warning appears that user's default Keychain password wasn't changed, click OK.  Now at the lower part of the Reset Password window, click Reset your userID home folder permissions.
Click the app,e in the left corner and choose Restart.
You now have the new password you created, write it down.  You will not lose any material on your system doing this.

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