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I created a survey on my system.  Lost my administrative password. When I try to reset  it asks for the original  ID which I can't find. Is there a way to reset the password from the file system or database.

A way to do this requires database access.
Create a new user with a known password. 
Copy the hashed (=encrypted) password of that user to your administrator in the database (database 1).

If you cannot create a new user, you may have to do this on another LimeSurvey instance (with database 2). And then copy the password string from the just created user from database 2 to database 1

That is the way I would do it. And did earlier.

Tammo