Changed admin without transferring content

  • Resolved Michel7

    (@michel7)


    9 years ago

    Probably did something stupid: I changed admin name and psw and tickmarked ‘do not transfer content of former admin’. (or something similar as translated). Now site is gone.

    Restoring backup from before admin change has no effect as keeps new admin name.
    However it seems all files and dbase is still there.

    Anybody any suggestion how to get the site back…

    txs.

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  • Moderator Bet Hannon

    (@bethannon1)

    I see you marked this resolved. Care to share how you fixed it, so it might help someone else with a similar issue?

    Thread Starter Michel7

    (@michel7)

    Own back up did not work so asked hosting party to use their back up on the server which indeed recovered the site to the position before I changed admin.
    So obvious lesson: if you want to change your admin name and password and delete your old admin name and you want to keep your site: tickmark “transfer content” from old name to new name.

    Another problem occurred due to the use of “password savings” on the mac OS. It took me a while to notice that trying to restore a back up, it used the old username although I had saved the new username and its password aswell. Obvious answer: delete old settings.

    no guarantee but worked out for me….

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