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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. Here's what you need to do:

  1. Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the UI.
  2. Click on security
  3. Enter a password before you download the backup file & write it down
  4. Download backup file to a usb thumb drive (or multiple devices)
  5. Backup file is 365 bytes. For example, you could easily save 5 backups on a 16gb usb thumb drive (365 bytes = 0.000000365 gigabyte which means you could store 44.44 million backup files on a 16gb usb thumb drive)
  6. Safely store the usb thumb drive and password you wrote down in a safe/security deposit box
  7. Take it a step further and detail the passing on of these two items to a loved one in your will!
  8. DO NOT SHARE YOUR SEED PHRASE OR BACKUP FILE/PASSWORD WITH ANYONE AS THIS GAINS ENTRY TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
  9. 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 and download:

Here’s how you will login to the UI with your backup file:

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