Hidden admin account (can't sign in)? How can I get it to show?

It's only showing a guest account, but no admin! What can I do?

I tried to sign as root (enabled on terminal by doing Command-S) to no avail.
I also tried repairing the disk, AND disk permissions, there were no errors, everything was clean.
And yet — no admin. What I ended up having to do was restore from Time Machine, but I had not done a backup for last night so I got screwed for about 7 hours of data! GREAT! That's some of which I had to present today but managed to figure something out.
Anyway, if anyone EVER figures this out, please let me know. I wanna know what it was that screwed me over.

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. Based on what you stated, it sounds like you changed your email address and iCloud is looking to sign in with the old Apple ID email. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help the issue.
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