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It sounds like you only have visitor permissions in the world, which is what you set as the default for new players joining the game. As the creator, you would have been set to Owner permissions when you created the world, but I can think of two ways you could be seen as a visitor now:
1. It's possible, as the owner, to take away your own permissions. You can change them to Member or Visitor, or set Custom permissions. If you try to change Owner permissions to anything less, the game will warn you, but it will let you continue. I would think you would know this if that's what you did, so let's move on.
2. Permissions are linked to Xbox Live IDs. (Basically, that's your gamertag, except that if you change your gamertag your same ID will be related to the new one instead.) When you created the world, it was your XBL ID that was given the Owner permissions. If anything has changed your XBL ID in the mean time, or if you signed on with a different gamertag to play the new world, you'd be seen as a new player and given visitor permissions. You could fix this problem by signing into Xbox Live with the original gamertag, unless it's been disabled for some reason. Once you're in, you can change your new gamertag's permissions.
Do you have any reason to think you might signed in with a different gamertag now than when you created the world? If not, did you give operator permissions to anybody else? They might have changed your permissions to Visitor as a prank or troll.
Good news! I was able to recreate the problem. I didn't realize MC worked this way, but if you set Trust Players to Visitor before creating the world, even your own XBL ID gets only Visitor permissions the first time you enter the world. But in fact, it's easy to fix. Just open the world, hit ESC to open the in-game menu, and you'll see your gamertag in the players list on the right. Next to your gamertag is a button to set your permissions. As the original creator, you can change permissions even without already having Operator permissions. (Other players should only be able to change permissions if they have Operator permissions, so it's safe.)
You can change your permissions to either Member or Operator, but if you haven't enabled Cheats choosing Operator gives you the same permissions as Member. It will warn you that you won't be able to issue operator commands or teleport unless you turn on Cheats, but it doesn't turn on Cheats for you.
That should solve your problem, I think, but it's kind of unintuitive that the game doesn't give its creator Operator permissions automatically, and it's understandably confusing when the result is as you described.. I'll leave it up to a moderator to decide whether to pass this on to the devs to see if that was what they intended or not. Please comment again if the advice above doesn't work for you.
Good news! I was able to recreate the problem. I didn't realize MC worked this way, but if you set Trust Players to Visitor before creating the world, even your own XBL ID gets only Visitor permissions the first time you enter the world. But in fact, it's easy to fix. Just open the world, hit ESC to open the in-game menu, and you'll see your gamertag in the players list on the right. Next to your gamertag is a button to set your permissions. As the original creator, you can change permissions even without already having Operator permissions. (Other players should only be able to change permissions if they have Operator permissions, so it's safe.)
You can change your permissions to either Member or Operator, but if you haven't enabled Cheats choosing Operator gives you the same permissions as Member. It will warn you that you won't be able to issue operator commands or teleport unless you turn on Cheats, but it doesn't turn on Cheats for you.
That should solve your problem, I think, but it's kind of unintuitive that the game doesn't give its creator Operator permissions automatically, and it's understandably confusing when the result is as you described.. I'll leave it up to a moderator to decide whether to pass this on to the devs to see if that was what they intended or not. Please comment again if the advice above doesn't work for you.
It sounds like you only have visitor permissions in the world, which is what you set as the default for new players joining the game. As the creator, you would have been set to Owner permissions when you created the world, but I can think of two ways you could be seen as a visitor now:
1. It's possible, as the owner, to take away your own permissions. You can change them to Member or Visitor, or set Custom permissions. If you try to change Owner permissions to anything less, the game will warn you, but it will let you continue. I would think you would know this if that's what you did, so let's move on.
2. Permissions are linked to Xbox Live IDs. (Basically, that's your gamertag, except that if you change your gamertag your same ID will be related to the new one instead.) When you created the world, it was your XBL ID that was given the Owner permissions. If anything has changed your XBL ID in the mean time, or if you signed on with a different gamertag to play the new world, you'd be seen as a new player and given visitor permissions. You could fix this problem by signing into Xbox Live with the original gamertag, unless it's been disabled for some reason. Once you're in, you can change your new gamertag's permissions.
Do you have any reason to think you might signed in with a different gamertag now than when you created the world? If not, did you give operator permissions to anybody else? They might have changed your permissions to Visitor as a prank or troll.