Restore Accounts from a Keystore File 🔗︎
- Unlock Lamden Vault
- From the left-hand menu, click
Settings
- Click the
RESTORE WALLET
button from the Settings Menu. - Chose a Keystore File in one of the following ways:
- Click the link
click here to choose a file
to browse to the Keystore file. - Drag and drop the Keystore file into the
Drop File Here
box on the Lamden Vault.
- Click the link
- Click the
CONFIRM KEYSTORE
button. - Enter the password which was used to back up the Keystore.
- If you entered a hint when you Created the Keystore you will see it displayed.
- Put a checkmark next to each account you wish to restore
- Click the
RESTORE ACCOUNTS
button. - After the restoration is complete you may see the following messages:
- (success)
Added <account name> to your wallet
- This means the account was successfully restored. - (success)
Updated the private key for
- This means a previously Watched Account has been updated with the associated secret key and is now a full account. - (error)
Keypair already exists as <account name>
- There is an Account in your wallet that already has the keypair you're trying to restore. - (error)
Cannot decrypt Secret Key: wrong password or bad data. Encrypted Data: <secret key>
- After the key was decrypted with the keystore password the resulting information was not a secret key.
- (success)
After going back the the Accounts
screen you will see the newly restored accounts.
Restore Linked Accounts 🔗︎
If any of the newly restored account were once Linked Accounts then you will need to follow the Restore Linked Accounts process to reconnect them.
Create a Keystore File 🔗︎
See Create Keystore.