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@salad No worries at all, it's an obvious point! But yeh, the old man is very frustrated and starts harping on about "bring back the good ole days" etc. He said maybe I'd be better selling it for the cash, at which point I suggested we drop this and wait until he's back in the UK (rather than tell him it's effectively an expensive paperweight haha).
Heartfelt thanks to all, it's actually quite simple: if he can't find the pword anywhere I'll tell him to reset his Apple ID and pass on the deets. Failing that we'll try the proof of purchase route.
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@gdkhgd - apologies, didn't mean to come across like an ass, and I'm sorry I wasn't of much help.
Have been through numerous computer dramas with both my parents - and my father also used to live abroad, with bad reception (and fucking Windows Vista back then, ugh).
This might sound stupid, but have you asked your old man already five times if he is really really sure he didn't write down the password of the machine somewhere when he set it up?