Missing admin for workspace
shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

Hi, my admin for the project-id: 9f5f896e-958b-4143-8625-1a5c003016d1? somehow went missing, and we have no control over this project anymore other to reinvite the admin back. My current account only have edit permission. Is it possible to revert the account back? Otherwise this workspace seems to be locked up at this point.

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61 Replies


a month ago

You would need to contact the owner of the Hobby plan.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

I am with him and he accidentally removed himself from it and was unable to log back in, that’s why we can’t change any settings on it anymore. Is it possible to add the admin back from original account? Or have a way to deal with it?


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

Not sure how this is possible to removed the owner / admin from the project and left with no controls afterwards. Since there were no warning or anything.

@Brody


a month ago

Sorry, but that is simply not possible, this is a hobby workspace, there can only be one admin, and you cannot remove yourself from your own hobby workspace without outright deleting it.

They are still admin, the account hasn't been deleted, everything is still in good standing.

So let's move past your diagnosis, please tell me exactly what is wrong when they try to log into their railway account via email.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

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shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

Indeed, that wasn't suppose to be possible, but it really did happened.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

When we tried to login again, the original admin account cannot see the workspace / project @Brody


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

hi


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

I am the owner of this project, but I am not able to see this project under my workspace. Can you help me?


a month ago

I'm fairly certain you have simply selected the wrong workspace


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

I should be the admin which is under the changyunglin@gmail.com account. as you can see in this screenshot.

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a month ago

Then that's the wrong account.


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

This what I see.

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shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

thats the original account


a month ago

You are not the admin of the Hobby workspace, the admin is a different email


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

okay


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

what is that email then?


a month ago

I hope you can understand that I'm not able to disclose that


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

You don't have to tell me all, but the first few characters would already be enough for me to verify.


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

I created this workspace with my Github account. Now, when I login, it's 0 project under this workspace.


a month ago

No sorry I'm not able to disclose this, if it's your account, you would want to log in with the correct email.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

is the admin suppose to list under the member page?


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

because its not listing it anywhere


a month ago

No, the workspace admin and the project members are two completely separate things


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

what if I prove that by the "Your receipt from Railway Corporation #2958-7701"


a month ago

Whoever the admin is, they need to simply log in with the correct email, there's nothing more I can really do for you all, there's nothing wrong with the account in any way.


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

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greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

Look at this email. I am the person paying for this under the email changyunglin@gmail.com.


a month ago

I'm sorry but this doesn't change what I've said previously, that's not the correct email.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

that is the email from billing, we have no way to cancel nor change it


a month ago

You can log in and cancel if you wish.


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

i log in using this changyunglin@gmail.com, but like i shared with you earlier, I don't even have the right workspace nor the billing under this account.


a month ago

I'm really sorry for repeating myself, but that is not the correct email, that is not the email associated with the railway account you would need to log in to.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

Is there anyway we can escalate this to prove of ownership of this workspace other than finding out what the real "email" is, even though that email is our billing email already.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

like credit card number that is on the file


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

Here is another one that could be which is lcylin@ucdavis.edu


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

or driver license or anything


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

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greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

As you can see. 0 project, not even able to access that workspace.


a month ago

No sorry, if it's your account then I'm not too sure why the email wouldn't be known, so we'll leave it at that.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

oh wait, I think you are unable to reply on it.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

I think we got it. Sorry for the problem.


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

no


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

I can login in using the roylin@toroamy.com


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

So why the roylin@toroamy.com is under here and marked as invite expired?


a month ago

Someone tried to invite the workspace's own admin, not sure why, that's something only y'all would know.


greenmonkeysaveearth
FREE

a month ago

Can we confirm that roylin@toroamy.com is the owner of this workspace?


a month ago

have them log in and check


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

we just verified it, it is the account. Sorry for the confusion.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

thank you for the help!


a month ago

Curious where the confusion on your end came from, if you don't mind me asking


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

we saw the invite expired, and never cross our mind that was the account that we signed up with


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

we thought that was one of the account we tried to migrate to


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

since we didnt see any admin listed under member, we assumed our admin got removed


a month ago

Admin is a workspace level construct, you as a project member only see project members.


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

I see, that was our misunderstanding.


a month ago

Noted


shsieh
FREEOP

a month ago

once again, thank you for all the help!


a month ago

No problem!


Status changed to Solved brody about 1 month ago


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