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Title: Restore wallet with Brainkey
Post by: fav on November 14, 2015, 02:43:57 pm
I'm helping someone who messed up very badly, he only got the brain key as last hope to restore his wallet.

what do I have to do in the console to restore the private keys and add them to the gui?
Title: Re: Restore wallet with Brainkey
Post by: Riverhead on November 14, 2015, 02:48:57 pm

It can be done from the GUI. When creating a new wallet there is a link at the bottom, "Existing Accounts". From there select "Create Wallet" and then "Custom Brain Key (Advanced)".

Reusing his known brain key will restore accounts created in that wallet.
Title: Re: Restore wallet with Brainkey
Post by: fav on November 14, 2015, 03:01:19 pm
Quote from: Riverhead on November 14, 2015, 02:48:57 pm

It can be done from the GUI. When creating a new wallet there is a link at the bottom, "Existing Accounts". From there select "Create Wallet" and then "Custom Brain Key (Advanced)".

Reusing his known brain key will restore accounts created in that wallet.

worked! thanks!!

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Title: Re: Restore wallet with Brainkey
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Title: Re: Restore wallet with Brainkey
Post by: cube on November 17, 2015, 05:25:25 am
Quote from: fav on November 14, 2015, 03:01:19 pm
Quote from: Riverhead on November 14, 2015, 02:48:57 pm

It can be done from the GUI. When creating a new wallet there is a link at the bottom, "Existing Accounts". From there select "Create Wallet" and then "Custom Brain Key (Advanced)".

Reusing his known brain key will restore accounts created in that wallet.

worked! thanks!!

It needs to be in the user manual - http://docs.bitshares.eu/bitshares/index.html

Paging @xeroc
Title: Re: Restore wallet with Brainkey
Post by: xeroc on November 17, 2015, 07:22:27 am
Yes .. there are alot of things that need to be added to the manual :)