I just did a hard reboot and tried it again. The first time I tried it, after I picked the names and passwords, it said "creating profile." It ran for a couple of hours, without doing anything. You will then be able to create a new user and then enable your existing account to be able to administer the computer. ![]() Rm “/Volumes/Macintosh HD/var/db/.applesetupdone.” ![]() In terminal type the following (be sure and type a space after rm) Instead go up to the menu and go to terminal. ![]() Reboot into Recovery mode, by holding down the Command and R keys. Otherwise, data about this account will be deleted from Mac. Surely you can change it but do not use the same name as the old administrator on Mac. Sign up with your Apple ID to get started. In my case, my internal drive is named "Macintosh HD." If yours is named something else, put that name in where I have written "Macintosh HD," in the following terminal command.įirst step. Default name for this account has been shown there. changing ownership/adminstrator on a macbook pro Welcome to Apple Support Community A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. I tried every solution out there, but they were all useless, until this one. You would end up with not a single administrator on your computer. Apple includes a Utility to reset an administrators password on every install Recovery HD. ![]() The reason this happens, is that somehow both Catalina and Big Sur, were somehow changing administrator users, so that they no longer had administrator level clearance. No, bootable USB for macOS and no macOS DVD.
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