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How can I get my password from flickr uploadr

sid — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:40:14 -0800

Help me hack into my own flickr account AskMeFi, this is a hard one. I have a long-dormant flickr account that I desperately need access to. I have tried the usual password-retrieval methods, but naturally, I had given them fake answers to the security questions.

The only method I have to access my account is through flickruploadr (version 2.2) on my venerable iBook G4. I can still use this to upload photos, but when I try to go to the site it asks for my Yahoo login and password which I no longer remember. The password is somewhere on my iBook. There is a file called com.flickr.uploadr.plist that has a string called my account name, but the value is gobbledygook. I am thinking this might be my password? How can I unscramble it? Is there some other way to get this password? I guess I also need my Yahoo ID (I no longer remember it, and it's not the same as my flickr username) - this must be somewhere on my iBook too.

I would really like control of this account back! There are pictures on there that I no longer want the whole world to see.

Any tips you have would be greatly appreciated.

How do I get my lost Mac Keychain password back?

darksmiler — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:44:37 -0800

How can I recover my Apple Mac Keychain password. As a new Mac user I have managed to forget my Keychain password. Is there a way to recover it without re-installing OSX?
I'm so used to handy password encryption programs I use on my PC, maybe there is something similar for the Mac?

I forgot the password for my USB thumbdrive!

sk381 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:42:10 -0800

Is there anyway I can still access the files on it? If that's not possible, can the drive be still made usable, by reformatting it in some fashion? Or will I just have to get a new one and dumb this one into the garbage can?