Account already registered: old account retrievable?

[jamesc]

Make sure you done leave anything valuable in the recycle bin.

[Chronos]

Well, I hit Create New Account and registered it, and then I noticed I could have renamed the old one. Is there any way to delete the old unregistered account from my local wallet? Thanks.

[Chronos]

OK, thanks. Fortunately, there was no BTS lost (other than the registration fee). Should I click Create New Account, or delete something first? I've heard warnings about having two accounts in the same installation instance.

[vikram]

Here's what I did:

1) Installed Bitshares
2) Register account on blockchain
3) Wait for blocks to sync
4) Sync crashed over and over, finally it hung (bug: if Ubuntu's lock screen kicks in, the sync hangs)
5) Deleted ~/.Bitshares folder
6) Resynced blockchain. This time it worked
7) Error: Account name already registered.

Is there any way to retrieve my account from step 2, even though I deleted the folder in step 5? I have the password I used.

Unless you copied a backup of wallet file elsewhere, the keys were deleted when you deleted ~/.bitshares folder and account cannot be recovered.

[Chronos]

Here's what I did:

1) Installed Bitshares
2) Register account on blockchain
3) Wait for blocks to sync
4) Sync crashed over and over, finally it hung (bug: if Ubuntu's lock screen kicks in, the sync hangs)
5) Deleted ~/.Bitshares folder
6) Resynced blockchain. This time it worked
7) Error: Account name already registered.

Is there any way to retrieve my account from step 2, even though I deleted the folder in step 5? I have the password I used.