lost access to my Admin

[halifaxdal]

I downloaded the website and installed on my local wamp server, I can't access Admin page now, I followed How do I change or reset my Admin Password? (I lost it)

It just doesn't take my new password.

Is there other remedy available?

I tried on my local wamp:

created users in phpMyAdmin using the same encrypted password in the above link which is "admin"
attempted to create an empty password on local but no use, of course because everything is encrypted so empty password still have a long string password.
attempted to create an empty password on live zencart but got rejected

What should I do now?

Thank you very much.

[halifaxdal]

OK, I just did this again:

1. I set up couple admin users in Admin on my live website

2. I download the code and extract it to local wamp server

3. I export the database and re-import it to a newly created database on local wamp server

4. I went through the zencart installation and the website is up on my local wamp server, no problem.

5. I then try to access the Admin site on my local wamp server

6. I tried all the users I created on live website, none of them work!!!

How could this happen?

How could I install a mail server so I can ask to send a email to reset the password?

Thank you very much. This is driving me nut.

[halifaxdal]

I just noticed some thing very odd: the database from live website is for zencart 1.3.9h, so the admin table is very simple with the following fields:

admin_name, admin_email, admin_pass, admin_level

For unknown reason, after I imported the database file to my local wamp, it suddently changes to a different structure which seems to be zencart 1.5 with the following fields:

admin_id admin_name admin_email admin_profile admin_pass prev_pass1 prev_pass2 prev_pass3 pwd_last_change_date reset_token last_modified last_login_date
last_login_ip failed_logins lockout_expires last_failed_attempt last_failed_ip

[mdivk]

When you install your cart, most likely you were installing 1.5 instead of 1.3.9, that is the reason why the table was OK but changed after front-end installation, I had the problem before and that is the cause.