No Users on my MacBook Pro My laptop became unresponsive yesterday and so I forced it to reboot. When it turned on again my user account didn't pop up as it usually does, neither did guest. There was only the option for "Other..." and it prompted me to enter 'User' and 'password' so I entered my name as it would usually appear and my admin password but it wouldn't accept it! 

I followed other steps online suggesting I use Terminal to reset my password (although i'm confident I am typing the correct password), but then it says to select a user account and won't give me any options!

I haven't backed up my photos and I'm worried I will lose them all!
You can backup your photos by entering in Single User Mode and then :


Steps


type mount -uw /

Then type du -h /Users/home directory/Picturesby this you can find out the space taken by your photos.(If you don't know the name of your home directory type ls -la /Users

Then plug in another pen drive larger than the size of the photos

Then type mkdir /usb

Then type mount -t [filesystem of pen drive] /dev/diskX /usb (X will be your disk identifier

then Press enter and type rsync -p -o -P /Users/homedirectoryname/Pictures /usb

After the copying process is over type shutdown -h now

This will copy  your entire photos library which you can open on another mac.