Hello Salesforce Community,
I am a student working on a Property Tax Management System in Salesforce Developer Edition.
I can log in to my org using my KORE VIVEK account, which has the Municipal Corporation Head Profile. Another active user, EPIC, OrgFarm, has the System Administrator profile, but I entered an email address that I do not control for that account.
I can still see my existing custom objects and flows, but I cannot edit flows or manage users. Salesforce displays an "Insufficient Privileges" error.
Additional information about my org:
I can access Setup → Company Information in my Developer Edition org.
The organization name is Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology. The Primary Contact and Created By fields show OrgFarm EPIC. My KORE VIVEK account is active and can access the existing project, but it cannot manage users or edit flows because of insufficient privileges.
I would like guidance on recovering administrator access while preserving the existing org and project configuration.
I want to recover administrative access to my existing org without losing my project configuration.
Could you please guide me through the recommended recovery process for a Developer Edition org?
Thank you for your help.
Hii @KORE VIVEK
You can’t make yourself admin from your own account. Only someone who can open the admin’s email, or a user who already has the “Manage Users” permission, can fix this.
- Check your own permissions first. Go to Setup → Users → Profiles → your profile, and also look at your Permission Set Assignments. See if you have “Manage Users”, “Customize Application” or “Modify All Data”. If you do, you can fix things yourself.
- Use the admin’s email. If the person who owns that email can open it, they should go to login.salesforce.com and click “Forgot Your Password?” with the admin username. The reset link goes to the email saved on that user. Once they are in, they can change the email to yours.
- If nobody can open that email, there is no self-service fix. I’m not sure Developer Edition orgs get Support help for this, so please check that on your side.
- Save your project now. If your profile has “API Enabled” and “View Setup”, use VS Code with the Salesforce Extension Pack to retrieve your objects, flows, Apex and LWC. Then deploy them to a new Developer Edition org where you are the admin. Records need a separate export (for example Data Loader), if your profile allows it.
- Next time, sign up with an email you control.
Can you tell me if your profile has “API Enabled” and “View Setup” checked? Then I can guide you further.
Docs:
https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/vscodeIf this solves your issue, please mark it as Best Answer so others can find it.
