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heej2
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

I deleted the admin by accident. What can I do?

I urgently need help. While distributing permissions in the home menu, I mistakenly deleted the owner=administrator permissions. As a result, the owner=administrator cannot access the main folder and cannot reassign the permissions. What should I do? Please understand that I had to use a translation site to ask this question because I cannot ask in Korean, so the sentences might be awkward.

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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    2 years ago

    Can you re-add him? That should then let him do it

  • heej2's avatar
    heej2
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago
    i deleted me, the administrator. So when I try to grant permissions again, it says I don’t have access rights.
  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    2 years ago

    You will need to get whoever now has Admin rights to re-add you to the Account.

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