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bretthandley

July 7, 2008, 7:49am

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Hi,

I was logged into my forum messing around with administrator settings on my profile - I was in two different user groups (one being the administrator group) and I rather stupidly unhighlighted the admin group and clicked save. Needless to say I was immediately kicked off the admin pages I was viewing and as that was the only admin account, I can't get back in.

I've backed up the forum locally as it stands, but have no earlier backup to go back to (it's a new forum with only a handful of posts & members). Is there any way of rescuing this or should I do a fresh install and start all over again? Currently running version 10.3

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July 7, 2008, 6:55pm

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Hi, Find the file "ranks2.txt" in prefs and you'll see administrator at the top. Find the line members = (23,1,54) where my member 23, 1 and 54 are administrators. Yours will be different. Simply add your member number to that.

If your not sure which member number you are, you can click each .dat file from the members folder and see which has your email address.
You'll probably be member number 1 though.

When you add your number to that and reupload, You'll now be an administrator again!

Hope that helps!