You can’t! Want to see how bad it is? Watch the video. You only need to watch the first 5 minutes. The rest is all in the same trend.
WARNING: Bad language.
Yeah, I forgot my password too. It never occurred to me that Linden Lab would not provide a way to recover a lost password. And obviously support was no help.
If you are running Patterns through Desura or Steam, this appears to largely be a non-issue.
As the Lab advises, simply create a new Patterns account, and you’ll have access to all your existing world builds / mods and will be able to edit, delete them whether offline or logged-in to the Cosmos. In the case of the latter, you’ll also be able to upload them (they’ll obviously just appear under your new user name, which admittedly could be a pain for anyone known in the Cosmos as a builder of fun worlds).
The only other pain appears to be if you regularly play in multi-player mode, as you have to advise anyone you play with regularly of your new user name so that they can invite you into any games they are hosting.
The video points out that all shared worlds and builds are lost with the password. So, a new email account and password is not an good solution.
I am still of the opinion that not having a password recovery process is a horrible oversight on the Lab’s part. And I think a rather novice mistake.
\The video points out that all shared worlds and builds are lost with the password. \
And that doesn’t appear to be the case. I’ve played with this up and down and sideways, and I’ve yet to find an instance where I cannot access a world I have edited / modified from any account I create on the computer on which they were first created. This includes all worlds shared via local hosting in multi-player mode and all worlds shared via the Cosmos.
Thanks for testing it.
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