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Daniel Eads
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Hi Ian, welcome to the Community!
As Kristin mentioned, it's possible you're not a space administrator for the space in question. Here's a quick screenshot of the controls you'd see, with space administrator permissions:
Given the age of your Confluence site, I think it's also possible you might be affected by an issue that kept people from being added as space administrators on the space that Confluence creates by default. You can see the details of this issue here: CONFCLOUD-69052
If this happens to be the case, you'll want to upgrade to the Standard edition of Confluence (even as a free evaluation) in order to regain permission to the default space. Here's how you would do this in detail:
- Navigate to yoursite.atlassian.com/admin, click Manage subscriptions on the left sidebar, and then click the Change link in the Confluence section
You'll need to switch from Free to Standard in order to proceed. Don't worry - Standard can be trialed as a free evaluation. - Regain permissions to the space by:
- Navigating to Settings>Space Permissions>Recover Permissions and selecting the default space
OR - Open a case with Atlassian Support at support.atlassian.com/contact
- Navigating to Settings>Space Permissions>Recover Permissions and selecting the default space
- End your Standard evaluation if you wish, by changing your edition back to Free in the Manage Subscriptions section of your site administration
Cheers,
Daniel
Kristin Lyons
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