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====== Account Recovery & Backup File ====== | ====== Account Recovery & Backup File ====== | ||
- | **ATTENTION!** Qortal does not have account recovery. If you lose access to your account, you will not be able to recover it without your seed phrase or backup file. The backup file contains your encrypted seed phrase so you don't have to memorize it. This file will never ' | + | {{: |
- | - Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the UI. | + | **ATTENTION!** Qortal does not have account recovery, |
- | - Click on security. | + | |
- | - Enter a password before you download the backup file & write it down. | + | |
- | - Download backup file to a usb thumb drive (or multiple devices) | + | |
- | - Backup | + | |
- | - Safely store the usb thumb drive and password you wrote down in a safe/ | + | |
- | - Take it a step further and detail the passing on of these two items to a loved one in your will! | + | |
- | - **DO NOT SHARE YOUR SEED PHRASE OR BACKUP FILE/ | + | |
- | - It is perfectly safe to share your PUBLIC KEY and ADDRESS as this is public information on the chain. | + | |
- | Here is how you will access | + | This file will never ' |
- | {{: | + | See [[Account Setup & Recovery]] wiki page for screenshots and walkthrough of this process. |
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- | Here’s how you will login to the UI with your backup file: | + | |
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- | (Continued step two below) | + | |
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