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https://multibit.org/blog/2017/07/26/multibit-shutdown.html
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View and/or Regenerate Wallet Words #711

Closed mclstr closed 8 years ago

mclstr commented 8 years ago

Is it possible to regenerate the wallet words for a running instance of Multibit-hd? Situations like where the paper copy is missing and/or compromised come to mind.

Or should the coins be sent to another wallet and Multibit-hd be reinstalled?

jim618 commented 8 years ago

It is not possible to regenerate the wallet words no. They are only shown in the wallet creation wizard and no record of them is kept. This is for security reasons.

If you have lost your wallet words then the best thing to do is: 1) Create a new wallet (press the create button on the password entry screen) 2) Generate a receiving address in the NEW wallet. 3) Switch to the old wallet and do a 'Manage wallet | Empty wallet' and transfer all your bitcoin to your new wallet.

That way if anything happens to the new wallet you will have your wallet words to recover your bitcoins.

mclstr commented 8 years ago

Makes a lot of sense. Yes I was planning on doing just that, but thought I'd check first. Thanks.

Maybe those details could be added to the help files?

jim618 commented 8 years ago

Glad you got that sorted. This issue is probably all the documentation users need ! (it's quite a specific query rather than general help).

gary-rowe commented 8 years ago

Doubt many users will venture in here - I'll flesh out the restore article to cover this scenario.

gary-rowe commented 8 years ago

Added as website issue #252.