Mac help request
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 10:21PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in What's Tom Up To?

Have service call scheduled tomorrow afternoon, but the problem is stunningly simple, if only I knew how to fix.

Family's iMac downstairs:  old wireless keyboard dies, and in the shuffle, the Mac gets rebooted and stuck at log-in screen.  Replacement keyboard in hand, but can't get it to link, bluetooth-wise to Mac and without it, cannot get past log-in screen.

Everywhere I look in help and online, I get instructions on how to fix the keyboard connection--but only if you're past the log in.

So the question is:  how to log-in absent keyboard so I can get to screens I know well and get the keyboard discovered and linked up?

Any help appreciated--but fast!

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