I may have erased my password file with pacdiff. I can't login!

Hi, I was reading MANY of the responses in:

and I guess I was confused. I’ve used vim before so I already had it installed. I saw someone say you could safely overwrite the file, so that’s what I did… to ALL of the different files pacdiff showed me.

So at least I know not to do that again, lol.

I’m going to use Timeshift to put everything back to earlier this evening and then I’ll try to fix my system again. This time, I’ll SKIP all the files except for pacman.conf and I’ll MERGE that one. Does that sound like a good plan??

Thanks to both of you for your help!!!