Password suddenly not recognized

I upgraded to Yosemite & everything was fine. I had to restart my computer recently because it froze while burning a cd & when I went to log back in it suddenly doesn't recognize my password. I never changed it. This is the administrator account as well. Not sure what to do. I can get into some of the other accounts but none of my music or photos are available in those accounts.

I actually had another admin account that I could log into & fixed my password.

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