You may not know if was, so you can try the following if both Macs have a FireWire (older models) or Thunderbolt 2 or 3 port: You may be able to mount a Mac as a volume on another Mac without a password using Target Disk Mode-as long as FileVault wasn’t enabled. Use Target Disk Mode or external drive startup If it doesn’t have a T2 chip, you can try the following if not, read on for what won’t work, and then strategies to try without the password. If the Mac in question is one of the above models, skip to “Strategies to work around not having the password,” later in this article. Without a fingerprint on a Touch ID-equipped Mac (for a computer that’s running, logged in, and in the right circumstances) or a password for any Mac, even without FileVault enabled, the contents of the Mac’s drive could be permanently unavailable. The T2 chip on a Mac automatically encrypts the startup drive as a way to improve security dramatically-including rendering a drive’s contents unreadable if a device were lost or stolen.
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