Backup the owner key OFFLINE! How many times do we have to repeat that? 😑
I'm a volunteer in the help channel, and every day we have cases of people losing their password, mistyping it, all sorts of voodoo stuff. So they lose their accounts permanently.
Did you try the steemit account recovery? It works in the cases of stolen or hacked accounts, as long as you still got the old/previous password. https://steemit.com/recover_account_step_1
There was no need but that was my next step if everything else failed
Glad it all worked out. Lesson learned 🤓
By the way, do you know it's possible to give access to your account to other users? For example, since you have a backup account, you can give it posting, active or even owner permissions to this account! In case something like that happens again, you can access and fix your account. It's a cool feature, not very well known. I will write a post about it, among other things concerning key handling and safety.
cool :)