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Locked myself out of my own SharePoint library
So, I wanted to change the permission levels for all users of a library at my site to 'View'. After I did that I realized that I locked myself out. I accidentally changed my own permissions as well....
It was my understanding that having Full Control rights at the site level would override application permissions for scenarios like this, but, that assumption is untested--if you already had Full Control rights at the site level, you can escalate this issue to someone in your organization that is a SharePoint administrator or a Global Admin for O365 (likely someone in your IT department); Global Admins don't get locked out of much after they have permissions to the site.
Is the administrator always the person who created the top site?
I didn't create it, but I have Full control permission and am listed as Owner.
- Being listed in the full control or owners group on a Sharepoint site isn’t full access to everything on the site. The highest level is site collection administrator. You must have someone with that level of permission fix the permission on the library.
- Site collection admins have full rights regardless, not full control permission.
Are you not the sites group owner? Is this SPO?
Anyway. Bottom line a site collection admin for the site collection the site resides will have to fix it.
A global admin can add themselves as site collection admin via set-sposite -loginname -site site -issitecollectionadmin $true if it’s SPO. Can also add now I believe in new SP admin center.