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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 '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.
+**Please note:** if you login with your seed phrase and don’t double check for a correct registered name/public key/address, you could think you have logged into the correct account, as the blockchain won’t tell you it is the wrong account.** Let’s say you log into the wrong account and don’t realize, then you send LTC to wallet. Maybe you even buy QORT in the Trade Portal. You would not have made a new backup file as you assume you are in the correct the account. Then if you lost access to that account such as not saving to the browser or your computer dies and you need to setup on a new one, you will then realize you had been using the wrong account. Don’t learn the hard way!
-  - 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/security deposit box.
-  - 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.
-Here is how you will access your backup file to create password and download (below are mobile UI screenshots - we will update with desktop UI screenshots shortly):
+All you need is the backup file, which is your encrypted 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.
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+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!
-Here’s how you will login to the UI with your backup file:
+See [[Account Setup & Recovery]] wiki page for screenshots and walkthrough of this process.
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