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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. The backup file contains your encrypted seed phrase so you don't have to memorize it. This file will never ' | + | **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/ |
- | - Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the UI. | + | This file will never ' |
- | - 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 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. | + | |
- | - 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 your backup file to create password | + | See [[Account Setup & Recovery]] wiki page for screenshots |
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- | Here’s how you will login to the UI with your backup file: | + | |
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