HELP.... accidentally removed admin/owner from Administrator group, now xWiki broken and superadmin won't work

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I can’t believe what a cluster I’ve made.

Another admin logged into xwiki on my machine without my knowledge. Couldn’t figure out what was going on and in a brain freeze, I decided to remove my account from the Administrator page, intending to re-add it. Duh, that meant I couldn’t go back to admin… plus the bazillions of macros I created no longer work either.

I enabled superadmin in xwiki.cfg and was able to log in, but I still can’t see or do anything.

This is what I see:
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My last backup is 8 days ago, and I have a team of 6 people who work in xWiki 8 hours a day so it would be a huge problem to rollback the database.

What are my options??

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Okay I figured out how to navigate to the Admin group page, and I rolled it back, which put my user back into the Admin group. I now can see more than I did before, but plenty of my macros are not found – for example the panels class isn’t working at all…

I also still can’t navigate to the admin panel normally either

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Macros are registered when they are saved or at init so yes fixing the author was not enough. Try to restart XWiki.

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Yes, restarting it did the trick! Thank you so much!