Hey @nebulinedesign, Welcome to the Local Community Forums!
It’s hard to know exactly what went wrong without seeing a Local log – Can you please provide one? See this Community Forum post for instructions on how to do so:
You mention not being able to log into the live site, one thing you might check is if the site-domain within Local is different than the live site’s domain.
You’ll want to use a different domain for the local site so that you’re able to access both of them at the same time. We usually recommend using a “dot local” suffix, like example.local