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-**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. During account setup, you can select ‘I am an advanced user’ to see your seedphrase. You can refresh until you find a seedphrase combination you like. Write that down, memorize it maybe? The backup file contains your encrypted seed phrase so you don't have to memorize it. This file will never 'grow' in size as it is only your login credential (encrypted seed phrase). But keep in mind, if you lose the password to your backup file, you are out of luck! Your password will decrypt the encrypted file for use. Here's what you need to do:
+**ATTENTION!** Qortal does not have account recovery, in the conventional sense where you could reach out to Qortal devs and they could help you recover your account/wallet. This is true decentralization, so it is up to YOU to safely store a backup file for account recovery. If you lose access to your account, for example if your computer stops working, you will not be able to recover it without your seed phrase or backup file. During account setup, you can select ‘I am an advanced user’ to see your seed phrase. You can refresh until you find a seed phrase combination you like. Write that down, memorize it maybe? But it is important to note that you do not need your seed phrase.
-  - Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the UI.
+If you access Qortal via seedphrase, ensure you input the seedphrase correctly. Any mistyped seed will get you into a different account, without any 'warning'. There is no such thing an an 'incorrect seedphrase' on Qortal. All seeds input will access an account.
-  - Click on security.
-  - Enter a password before you download the backup file & write it down.
+All you need is the backup file, which is an encrypted copy of your Qortal private account information (private key). This means if someone had your backup file, they still couldn’t hack your account without the password you make to decrypt it! This is a much safer option than having a seed phrase written down, as that is all a hacker needs to gain access to your account/wallet.
-  - Download backup file to a usb thumb drive (or multiple devices)
-  - Backup file is 365 bytes. 365 bytes = 0.000000365 gigabyte which means you could store 44.44 million backup files on a 16gb usb thumb drive.
+This file will never 'grow' in size as it is only your login credential (encrypted private key). But keep in mind, if you lose the password to your backup file, you are out of luck!
-  - Safely store the usb thumb drive and password you wrote down in a safe/security deposit box.
-  - You could also put the backup in a protected 7 zip text file.
-  - 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/PASSWORD WITH ANYONE AS THIS GAINS ENTRY TO YOUR ACCOUNT.**
-  - It is perfectly safe to share your PUBLIC KEY and ADDRESS as this is public information on the chain.
 See [[Account Setup & Recovery]] wiki page for screenshots and walkthrough of this process.

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