Discussion of login issues and accidentally creating multiple accounts on Sanity.io

I am getting "You do not have access to the project with ID '...'. You may need to login again with sanity login." when I try and

sanity deploy

from my studio directory in Terminal. Reading the docs for this error is not helpful , I am logged into that same account, it's my only project, and the project ID is exactly the same. What do I do?

You tried different browsers?

Wait, what? Tried different browsers to deploy from Terminal?

Oh i read it wrong, ive seen login issues before so that was my first thought

I tried logging out, and back in.

Project ID is the same in my dashboard. I am the only user of this account, so I am the admin.

Thanks anyway

You’re likely using a different provider to log into the CLI than you are to Manage.

Provider...

I do only have one Sanity account

The method you’re using to log in

You’ve probably created two accounts by accident

Uh, how does one delete one account but not the other?

Log in to Manage using the method for the account you’d like to delete, then click delete account under settings.

So to be clear, I can have two accounts with one email address?

I am going to delete the only account I know I have.

Oh which means I have to delete this project

If the project shows up under the account in manage, don’t delete that account.

Too late, account deleted.

Well that confirmed I had two accounts!

Going back to sanity.io shows another email I did not know I signed up with.

Can I connect an existing local Sanity project to a new Sanity project online?

Actually, I am pretty sure I somehow had two accounts for the same email address.

Frank, you are reminding me of something my father taught me quite small -- and had to unteach me as it was an instant favorite to say everywhere, but maybe I bring it back this once :)
...Confucius said, 'Patience is a virtue' ..., and imagine a two year old with this!

Easier said than done when on deadline using new tech to replace your 15 years of WordPress knowledge. 😅

(my father grew up in China)

and yes, you are on the rapid road :)

I learn by failing, hard sometimes, but fast

Like now, no idea if updating this project ID will work

... and that worked!

BTW, if this happens again, you can check the provider you need to use in Manage. Then run

sanity logout && sanity login

and use the method pictured.

I used email, and it was the same email address

Like I said, it can be the same email address. The provider matters as well. If you created the account using an email and password, then used google to log into the CLI those would be two different accounts.

I email/password as a default in life. I never rely on third party providers. That's why when you said provider, I didn't really understand what you meant.

Look at Twitter. 🙄

Lol don’t make me

It's a good reason to never trust a third party provider. ☺️

Ah, but I am also very lazy…

But using something like 1 pass to handle it does make about the same level of ease

I am a devout 1Password user

I am now after being burned by last pass…

cool tip, , and you are the beneficiary of Google BigQuery beneficence,

Oh this is interesting. I lost everything.

Thankfully I wasn't far, but when I start my local Studio all my content is missing.

That's, shocking.

Did you replace the project ID or create a different dataset? If so, that would explain it.

Yes, I replaced the project ID because I didn’t have a project showing up.