Posted: 1/29/2013 4:58:22 PM EDT
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ShaneA319's thread about getting into a passworded XP box made remember an issue I've got.
I didn't want to derail his thread. My daughter left an Apple Mac Book Pro with filevault compression/security. She was a pretty accomplished artist, and photographer, and I'd like to recover anything she may have left there. Actually I'd probably have one of her sisters go through it. She encrypted it after it was stolen last year (and recovered, surprisingly). I took it to Apple and they reset the password on her account, and made another admin account. Unfortunately when they logged onto her account after the pw reset the filevault notice came up and said "hey, you've changed your password, we'll need the old password to verify access". The Apple geniuses shrugged their shoulders at that point and said I was SOL. So, the question is this: any way to crack that pw at the filevault prompt level? luckily it allows infinite password tries, but a couple hours of obvious selections yielded no results. thanks. |
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mak0, yes I've been told that. I just thought I'd ask.
I'll end up having Apple wipe the disk and start over it that's what it takes. We did recover a lot of pics from her camera, I'd just like to see what she had already stored on the HDD. There was some cool school projects that she had done that were on there as well. |
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Look around, when you create FileVault, it gives you a recovery key to save in case you lose the password. It's possible that she actually wrote it down somewhere as it suggests.
it's 24 characters, in groups of 4. Also, it can be stored with apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790 There's no way to crack it though, the encryption is quite secure. |
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Look around, when you create FileVault, it gives you a recovery key to save in case you lose the password. It's possible that she actually wrote it down somewhere as it suggests. it's 24 characters, in groups of 4. Also, it can be stored with apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790 . Thank you, this is something I did not know. I will investigate further. If she stored the recovery key with Apple they should be able to dig it out and get the drive unlocked. I wonder why the "Genius Bar" guys did not mention this. |
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Look around, when you create FileVault, it gives you a recovery key to save in case you lose the password. It's possible that she actually wrote it down somewhere as it suggests. it's 24 characters, in groups of 4. Also, it can be stored with apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790 . Thank you, this is something I did not know. I will investigate further. If she stored the recovery key with Apple they should be able to dig it out and get the drive unlocked. I wonder why the "Genius Bar" guys did not mention this. The "geniuses" are paid something like $10-12/ hour. There are some really bright people that know Macs, they charge more than that. |