Mac time machine restore admin password!

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Hi,

Im trying to restore my macbook pro from a timemachine backup. The Mycloud drive has worked great with auto wifi backups but now when i plug an ethernet cable directly into the drive i need an administrator password. Had a look around on the net but only found a couple of posts that suggest the administrator password it "admin", unfortunately this isnt the case.

Can anyone offer any help on this?

Thanks!

Blair

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I am not sure what you need. A timemachine password? Or mycloud password?

if mycloud you can do a system only restore, see the manual for details. your data will be left intact. all added users deleted and passwords reset

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Wait… can you even connect your Mac directly to the My Cloud with an Ethernet cable? I thought the My Cloud had to stay wired directly to your router. If anything I’d put an Ethernet cable between your Mac and your router and turn Wi-Fi off (to make sure it doesn’t take precedence over the Ethernet interface, which is much faster).

I would think that Time Machine restores would work pretty much just as they would if they were on an Apple Time Capsule. My gut tells me you should just leave the My Cloud hooked up to your router and look exclusively to Apple’s instructions on how to recover using Time Machine backups. Your Mac doesn’t know it’s a My Clound and not a Time Capsule… It just saw an available backup volume on your network. I would think Apple’s recovery instructions would be the way to go. I could be wrong, but I’d start there.

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I connected my mac directly to the drive and through the router using an ethernet cable. Same result both times.

The message i get isplease enter system administrator password for WDMycloud.local. Tried the papir clip reset (press button for 4 seconds while the drive is on) but get the same message.