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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 | + | **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. | + | **Please note:** if you login with your seed phrase and don’t double check for a correct registered name/public key/ |
- | - Click on security. | + | |
- | - Enter a password before | + | |
- | - 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 could also put the backup in a protected 7 zip text file. | + | |
- | - Take it a step further and detail | + | |
- | - **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 | + | 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 |
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- | 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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