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Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD?

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On 2018-10-02, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Here's a weird one. I don't know if this is by design. I was booting up 
> a 2008's 15" MacBook Pro. I already entered its HDD's FileVault password 
> to slowly boot up its updated Mac OS X El Capitan v10.11.6. And then, I 
> accidently pulled its mag power plug from MBP and the system shut down 
> (sleep?) due to lack of power (still using the original battery -- never 
> replaced any hardwares on it since it is rarely used).

That battery should probably be replaced pronto.

> After replugging its power plug back in and turning it back on, it did 
> its usual slow boot up but it never asked me to enter my password to 
> access its encrypted HDD. Instead it took me to its password reset 
> screen with three prompts. Huh? I never asked for that.
>
> Was that supposed to happen?

You mean this screen?:

<https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/osx/yosemite-password_reset-choose_problem.png>

That's normally what you see when you let the computer sit at the
FileVault password entry screen for a while, and the computer guesses
that you may have forgotten the password to FileVault. It tells you that
you can hold the power button to shit down, then press the power button
again to boot up into macOS Recovery, where you see this screen. So
apparently your computer booted into macOS Recovery due to losing power.

I haven't ever arrived there by accident, but I suspect you can just
shut it down and boot it up again to get back to the normal boot
sequence.

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Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-10-02 18:51 -0500
  Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-10-03 00:34 +0000
    Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-10-02 20:58 -0500
      Re: Reset password after losing power during a decade old MacBook Pro (MBP) boot up after entering a password for its internal HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-10-03 02:41 +0000

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