Tutorial: Master Key Import in Yoroi
As of Yoroi 1.3.4 we now have a feature to import your “Daedalus Master Key” into Yoroi. There is a lot of misconception about this feature so let’s spend some time explaining what this feature is and how it works.
What problem are we trying to solve?
Imagine the following scenario:
- User has Daedalus installed on their computer
- They forgot the recovery phrase for their wallet
- They remember the password for their wallet
- Daedalus fails to open on their computer
How do you recover your funds?
If you still had the recovery phrase, you could migrate to Yoroi just as in this video or recover your Daedalus wallet on using Daedalus a different machine.
To explain the solution, first we will have to cover some basics.
Note: this blog post is intended for an audience with some knowledge of cryptocurrency wallets and how they work. We intend to make more comprehensive posts for beginners going forward, so don’t worry!
Wallet Creation Flow
When you create a wallet, you need to enter 15 words (often called a recovery phrase or a mnemonic). This mnemonic is to generate your private key (in wallets like Yoroi, this is also called a master key).
More specifically, the mnemonic generates the entropy needed to create your wallet. You may have seen other ways to generate entropy such as moving your cursor or typing on your keyboard.
Whoever has the recovery phrase can recover (and take control of) all the money you have on your wallet. Yikes!
We can protect the user by introducing a password
The password encrypts your private key so if somebody gets access to your computer, they cannot access your private key as they don’t have the password.
However, your secret key is required to send money, which means you need to decrypt it every time you send money!
If you open the Chrome Developer console, you can see your encrypted master key there
If this is somewhat concerning to you, this is why hardware wallets are so popular! Instead of storing the master key on your machine, it is safely stored within the hardware wallet and Yoroi (or any other application) never gets to see it.
Back to Daedalus
Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s look at our solution.
Although we do not have the Daedalus mnemonic, we still have the encrypted master key on our computer. More specifically, Daedalus stores master keys in a file called secrets.key on your hard drive.That means all we need to get our Ada back is use our password!
There is a catch though — Daedalus is actually not the one managing your private key. Here is how Daedalus works (simplified)
Daedalus is just a UI frontend, but all the data is managed by the Cardano Wallet and the Cardano SL fullnode.
This extra complication means we leave it to IOHK to build a tool to extra the master key from secrets.key instead of providing one ourselves. However, once you have the master key, importing it into Yoroi is now easy!
Advantages and looking forward
The advantage of this option (beyond solving the case we outlines) is that you can now also migrate Daedalus wallets to Yoroi that were not created using a mnemonic. As I mentioned before, mnemonics are just one way to generate entropy but it’s not the only way and so we should support all users!
Going forward, we will implement a way to restore Yoroi wallets from a secret key also so if you’d like the generate a wallet with a different source of entropy, you’ll find a nice home in Yoroi!
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How to restore a Daedalus wallet from files and password?
I'm facing an issue for a long time and I want to fix it now: I lost access of my Cardano!
For some reason the recovery phrase I saved is incorrect. I've the 12 words but Daedalus is telling me the phrase is invalid. Maybe some words are inverted, I don't know.
I still have the Daedalus files which were stored on my old laptop's SSD and the password to unlock the wallet. One important point is that it's been maybe 2 years I didn't access this wallet so the Daedalus version used at that time is now quite old (don't know exactly which version I was using). There was no .sqlite3 file and I had a folder called Wallet-1.0 unlike the Wallet-1.0-acid we can find now.
Could you tell me if that's possible to restore a wallet from an old version of Daedalus and if yes which files exactly to copy? I tried to copy the Secrets-1.0 folder containing a secret.key file and a secret.key.lock one. But sadly after doing that and opening Daedalus (the blockchain is 100% synced) it didn't recognize the wallet (didn't ask me for the password to unlock it).
I think many things have changed in the past 2 years and I'm scared Daedalus is now using SQLite as database for storing wallet information instead of text files and that I won't be able to restore my wallet with the files I have.
Thanks for your answers, I really hope I can get access back to my Cardano. This invalid recovery phrase issue is really unfortunate, I don't know how come I saved an invalid one.
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How can I restore wallet from secret.key file? #1234
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when i heard 0.12 version has low disk usage, i just copy my secret.key out, i thought it is the keystore like ethereum. then i delete the old 0.11.2 version’s daedalus folder。 when i finished sync of 0.12, i copy secret.key into Secrets-1.0 folder, it can’t identify.
i lost my 12 words phase unfortunately。so how can i restore wallet from secret.key file, please.
This is going to be a bit tricky but here’s what you need to do:
-
Uninstall your current Daedalus installation and delete your state directory (on Windows this directory is in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Daedalus , while on OSX it is in
- Windows : https://github.com/input-output-hk/daedalus/releases/download/0.11.2/daedalus-0.11.2-cardano-sl-1.3.2-mainnet-windows-10311.exe
- OSX : https://github.com/input-output-hk/daedalus/releases/download/0.11.2/daedalus-0.11.2-cardano-sl-1.3.2-mainnet-macos-3541.pkg
@yuelipeng I have originally posted wrong links to the previous Daedalus installers — please use the ones from my comment which I have now updated. Thanks!
i’m in mac too. this secret.key is created at early 2018 not 0.11.2. and i have tried 0.11.1, 0.11.2 and 0.9.0 all shows error , but i think my file path is right, because it add a secret.key.lock file automatically.
@yuelipeng did you have a spending-password set for this wallet of yours?
@nikolaglumac yes, password protected.
@yuelipeng so the problem is your wallet’s secret.key file is encrypted and therefore it can not be imported using the steps I have described in my first comment. I’ll investigate if there is something else we could try.
@yuelipeng did you save any other files from the state directory besides the secret.key one?
@yuelipeng unfortunately, there is no easy way to extract a wallet.key file out of the secrets.key you have. Still, there is no reason for despair as @cleverca22 is working on a util app which will make this extraction possible. Once this util is ready @cleverca22 will update this thread and you will then be able to use the extracted wallet.key for importing in the latest Daedalus version.
@cleverca22 when will this extraction util app be done, you can just build a command line tool to decode.
This is what I need because when I instaled the new daedlus instance year after this instance used wallet that I don’t have password for it so it never asked me for 12 words phrase to write down, I have sen’t funds and downloaded paper wallet instuctions I tought that was it but money is now stuck in old wallet from what I don’t have a password or phrase
@cleverca22 when will this extraction util app be done, you can just build a command line tool to decode.
that is it, with decryption we could see our wallet password and send it to another wallet
OMG I found my old 12 word phrase now, lucky as hell
@webmacho writing down your 12 words recovery phrase during wallet creation is the most important step. Having those 12 words protects you from all potential issues — it can save you even if you forget your spending-password. It is very unfortunate that you forgot this phrase.
I have sen’t funds and downloaded paper wallet instuctions I tought that was it but money is now stuck in old wallet from what I don’t have a password or phrase
I believe you did not understand the paper-wallet feature. The idea behind it is that Daedalus generates a new wallet (which is in no way connected to any of the existing wallets you have in Daedalus) and then you can send ada from your other wallets to the wallet address listed on the paper wallet PDF.
. and then follow these steps:
Using Daedalus "Wallet importer" tool
Salvage/save secret.key file from the previously used Daedalus installation by copying it to a safe location. This file can be found in the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\Secrets-1.0\secret.key
macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/Secrets-1.0/secret.key
Linux:
Uninstall any existing Daedalus installation and delete the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\
macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/
Linux:
Install a special Daedalus edition (links provided above).
Wait until Daedalus is fully synced and the main UI shown.
Once the main UI is shown navigate to the "Wallet Importer" screen using application menu "Daedalus > Wallet Importer".
Use the file-input field shown on the screen to open secret.key file salvaged from the previous Daedalus installation (described in step No. 1).
Daedalus will extract wallets from the submitted secret.key file and show the list of discovered wallets.
For each of the discovered wallets you will be able to see it’s balance and whether or not it is protected by a spending password.
All the wallets that haven’t been protected by a spending password can be imported right away (note: wallet import process takes between 30 and 120 minutes depending on the machine speed and there can be only one active import process at the time).
Use the "Passwords list" field to enter a list of up to 20 potential spending passwords and then click the "Match passwords" button in order to match them to your wallets.
You can repeat step No. 10 until all the wallet passwords are matched.
All the wallets you import using this tool will no longer be protected by a spending password which will enable you to transfer your ada to another wallet.
This will resolve your issues too @yuelipeng.
@nikolaglumac thanks for the improvement. But after i selected the secret.key, it shows "Wallet could not be imported, please make sure you are providing a correct file". i didn’t modified the file.
@yuelipeng I believe you used the "Import dialog" from the "Add wallet" screen and this is not something you can do with the "secret.key" file. You have to use the new screen — the one you can navigate from the application menu -> "Daedalus > Wallet importer".
@nikolaglumac ok, my fault, restoration is in progress, thanks.
@nikolaglumac thanks, it’s already recovered.
Wonderful news @yuelipeng ��
Thank you guys for your work. You helped me get my money back!
Now a day, Yoroi should be able to restore a wallet from a Daedalus un-encrypted master key. Does anyone know a console command in Daedalus to decrypt the encrypted master key (secret.key)?
any possibility how to recover wallet from secret.key ?
I tried to download the app you referenced below but the link is dead and I am trying your solution to recover my wallet.
@webmacho writing down your 12 words recovery phrase during wallet creation is the most important step. Having those 12 words protects you from all potential issues — it can save you even if you forget your spending-password. It is very unfortunate that you forgot this phrase.
I have sen’t funds and downloaded paper wallet instuctions I tought that was it but money is now stuck in old wallet from what I don’t have a password or phrase
I believe you did not understand the paper-wallet feature. The idea behind it is that Daedalus generates a new wallet (which is in no way connected to any of the existing wallets you have in Daedalus) and then you can send ada from your other wallets to the wallet address listed on the paper wallet PDF.
. and then follow these steps:
Using Daedalus "Wallet importer" tool
- Salvage/save secret.key file from the previously used Daedalus installation by copying it to a safe location. This file can be found in the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\Secrets-1.0\secret.key macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/Secrets-1.0/secret.key Linux:
- Uninstall any existing Daedalus installation and delete the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\ macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/ Linux:
- Install a special Daedalus edition (links provided above).
- Wait until Daedalus is fully synced and the main UI shown.
- Once the main UI is shown navigate to the "Wallet Importer" screen using application menu "Daedalus > Wallet Importer".
- Use the file-input field shown on the screen to open secret.key file salvaged from the previous Daedalus installation (described in step No. 1).
- Daedalus will extract wallets from the submitted secret.key file and show the list of discovered wallets.
- For each of the discovered wallets you will be able to see it’s balance and whether or not it is protected by a spending password.
- All the wallets that haven’t been protected by a spending password can be imported right away (note: wallet import process takes between 30 and 120 minutes depending on the machine speed and there can be only one active import process at the time).
- Use the "Passwords list" field to enter a list of up to 20 potential spending passwords and then click the "Match passwords" button in order to match them to your wallets.
- You can repeat step No. 10 until all the wallet passwords are matched.
- All the wallets you import using this tool will no longer be protected by a spending password which will enable you to transfer your ada to another wallet.
This will resolve your issues too @yuelipeng.
@sohosynergy the links have probably expired. @disassembler @cleverca22 is there any way for us to restore these installers?
Links are not working. can you provide us with other working links?
My story. i upgraded to a bigger hard drive and install new windows operating system on the new hard drive. then i connect the old one to transfer all my files and when i look at the files on my old hard drive i can see all the scrennshot .png files in there but i can’t open it. One of those .png files was my 12 seed words to my mainnet Daedalus wallet. However i’m able to restore the incentivized testnet yoroi wallet with the 15 seed words. My only option is to figure out how to restore it with the secret.key file which by the way appears to be encrypted. If anyone knows a solution to this problem please help us and post it here. Thanks in advance.
The links above not working. there’s any way we can restore Daedalus with the secret key file. Any help is highly appreciated.
The problem is still actual. Need to recover my secret.key to. Please update links above (Windows version). Thanks a lot!
Hi @mondonet and @Ugosha, The links are unfortunately expired (the installers were automatically deleted from the S3 bucket after 6 months). We need to re-create this special build on the CI in order to provide the new links. This is something that requires time and effort as our build setup has changed a lot. Still, we will do our best to get the new links and keep you in the loop. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
I tried to set up linux version on mint linux. But wallet can not sync over 98.44%. No further progress. Reboot did not help. There is restart Cardano node option on Network status page. This did not help too.
The wallet importer option is not active.
@Ugosha unfortunately this build is not able to fully sync as it lacks support for OBFT fork which was recently activated.
Is there any build that works correctly?
Not with this wallet importer feature which was a custom build.
I still hope there will be working build. Secret.key file this is all i have. No 12 or 27-words recovery seed.
Please be patient — we will find a way to resolve this issue and help you get to your ada.
Thank you for your help!
Any updates about this?
I also need to restore from secret.key file. Please help us out!
Hi @Ugosha and @Dave-bit1 �� We will release an "Import from secret.key" feature in one of the upcoming Daedalus Flight releases. You will soon be able to restore your wallets. Thank you for your patience!
Hi @Ugosha @Dave-bit1 @mondonet @icyak! In order to recover your wallets from the secret.key file please download the latest Daedalus Flight from the official Daedalus website: https://daedaluswallet.io/en/flight/
Daedalus Flight is our new community testing program. You can learn more about it here: https://t.co/PfHvSEpgOm?amp=1
This version of Daedalus connects to the mainnet and can be run alongside your existing Daedalus version. It contains a "Wallet import" feature which imports wallets from mainnet Daedalus state directory OR a directory of your choice which contains your secret.key file within a subdirectory named Secrets-1.0 on Windows and macOS or just Secrets on Linux. In order for Daedalus Flight to extract wallet names you should also have a Wallet-1.0-acid folder from your previous Daedalus mainnet state directory.
Directory structure is very important here. Please make sure you select the folder which has:
* Wallet-1.0-acid is not mandatory and the wallet import feature will work without it but it will not be able to detect wallet names!
If you have mainnet Daedalus installed, Daedalus Flight will automatically start the wallet import process on first start. If that doesn’t happen (e.g. if you don’t have Daedalus installed but you have your secret.key file stored in a different directory) you can use the manual "Wallet import" option which can be found on the "Add wallet" screen:
Once you activate the "Wallet import" feature you will see the first import step:
Please select the folder which contains your Secrets-1.0/secret.key and/or Wallet-1.0-acid directories and click on "Import wallets" button upon which Daedalus will try to extract wallets and if they are found you will see the following screen:
In case you did not have a valid Wallet-1.0-acid directory within the directory you used in the previous step you will not get to see your wallet’s names and will need to enter names in this step before you can import these wallets. Select the wallets you wish to import and click on the "Import selected wallets" button. The import process is very fast and after closing this overlay you will have all your wallets in Daedalus Flight ��
Thanks @nikolaglumac! @Ugosha and @Dave-bit1, please get back to us and let us know did you manage to do the import successfully. Thanks! 🙂
You guys did a great job!
Fortunately, I was able to find the previous installation. And finally got back my tokens. Is there any way to make donation to your community?
You guys did a great job!
Fortunately, I was able to find the previous installation. And finally got back my tokens. Is there any way to make donation to your community?
Thanks a lot!
Very glad to hear that @Ugosha �� Knowing we helped you get your ada back is rewarding enough for us 🙂
Can someone please clarify the process if you do not have your spending password or 12 phrase. Is it possible?
OMG I can’t believe it, I finally have access to my Ada again. What a great day ��
Thanks a lot to the developers, you did a great job. This feature was quite awaited I think
Can someone please clarify the process if you do not have your spending password or 12 phrase. Is it possible?
@dralefoy this feature will help you if you have a Daedalus state directory OR a secret.key file. However, the wallets will still be password protected in case the password was previously set.
I have a previous password. Do not know previous password. Should I import or just delete and forget?
I have a previous password. Do not know previous password. Should I import or just delete and forget?
@dralefoy you can still import your wallet but you won’t be able to move the ada without knowing the correct password 🙁 You can "reset" the password only if you know your 12-word recovery phrase.
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How can I restore wallet from secret.key file? #1234
How can I restore wallet from secret.key file? #1234
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when i heard 0.12 version has low disk usage, i just copy my secret.key out, i thought it is the keystore like ethereum. then i delete the old 0.11.2 version’s daedalus folder。 when i finished sync of 0.12, i copy secret.key into Secrets-1.0 folder, it can’t identify.
i lost my 12 words phase unfortunately。so how can i restore wallet from secret.key file, please.
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@yuelipeng I have originally posted wrong links to the previous Daedalus installers — please use the ones from my comment which I have now updated. Thanks!
i’m in mac too. this secret.key is created at early 2018 not 0.11.2.
and i have tried 0.11.1, 0.11.2 and 0.9.0 all shows error , but i think my file path is right, because it add a secret.key.lock file automatically.
@yuelipeng did you have a spending-password set for this wallet of yours?
@nikolaglumac yes, password protected.
@yuelipeng so the problem is your wallet’s secret.key file is encrypted and therefore it can not be imported using the steps I have described in my first comment.
I’ll investigate if there is something else we could try.
@yuelipeng did you save any other files from the state directory besides the secret.key one?
@yuelipeng unfortunately, there is no easy way to extract a wallet.key file out of the secrets.key you have. Still, there is no reason for despair as @cleverca22 is working on a util app which will make this extraction possible. Once this util is ready @cleverca22 will update this thread and you will then be able to use the extracted wallet.key for importing in the latest Daedalus version.
@cleverca22 when will this extraction util app be done, you can just build a command line tool to decode.
This is what I need because when I instaled the new daedlus instance year after this instance used wallet that I don’t have password for it so it never asked me for 12 words phrase to write down, I have sen’t funds and downloaded paper wallet instuctions I tought that was it but money is now stuck in old wallet from what I don’t have a password or phrase
@cleverca22 when will this extraction util app be done, you can just build a command line tool to decode.
that is it, with decryption we could see our wallet password and send it to another wallet
OMG I found my old 12 word phrase now, lucky as hell
@webmacho writing down your 12 words recovery phrase during wallet creation is the most important step. Having those 12 words protects you from all potential issues — it can save you even if you forget your spending-password. It is very unfortunate that you forgot this phrase.
I have sen’t funds and downloaded paper wallet instuctions I tought that was it but money is now stuck in old wallet from what I don’t have a password or phrase
I believe you did not understand the paper-wallet feature. The idea behind it is that Daedalus generates a new wallet (which is in no way connected to any of the existing wallets you have in Daedalus) and then you can send ada from your other wallets to the wallet address listed on the paper wallet PDF.
. and then follow these steps:
Using Daedalus «Wallet importer» tool
- Salvage/save secret.key file from the previously used Daedalus installation by copying it to a safe location. This file can be found in the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\Secrets-1.0\secret.key
macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/Secrets-1.0/secret.key
Linux:
- Uninstall any existing Daedalus installation and delete the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\
macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/
Linux:
- Install a special Daedalus edition (links provided above).
- Wait until Daedalus is fully synced and the main UI shown.
- Once the main UI is shown navigate to the «Wallet Importer» screen using application menu «Daedalus > Wallet Importer».
- Use the file-input field shown on the screen to open secret.key file salvaged from the previous Daedalus installation (described in step No. 1).
- Daedalus will extract wallets from the submitted secret.key file and show the list of discovered wallets.
- For each of the discovered wallets you will be able to see it’s balance and whether or not it is protected by a spending password.
- All the wallets that haven’t been protected by a spending password can be imported right away (note: wallet import process takes between 30 and 120 minutes depending on the machine speed and there can be only one active import process at the time).
- Use the «Passwords list» field to enter a list of up to 20 potential spending passwords and then click the «Match passwords» button in order to match them to your wallets.
- You can repeat step No. 10 until all the wallet passwords are matched.
- All the wallets you import using this tool will no longer be protected by a spending password which will enable you to transfer your ada to another wallet.
This will resolve your issues too @yuelipeng.
@nikolaglumac thanks for the improvement. But after i selected the secret.key, it shows «Wallet could not be imported, please make sure you are providing a correct file». i didn’t modified the file.
@yuelipeng I believe you used the «Import dialog» from the «Add wallet» screen and this is not something you can do with the «secret.key» file.
You have to use the new screen — the one you can navigate from the application menu -> «Daedalus > Wallet importer».
@nikolaglumac ok, my fault, restoration is in progress, thanks.
@nikolaglumac thanks, it’s already recovered.
Thank you guys for your work. You helped me get my money back!
Now a day, Yoroi should be able to restore a wallet from a Daedalus un-encrypted master key.
Does anyone know a console command in Daedalus to decrypt the encrypted master key (secret.key)?
any possibility how to recover wallet from secret.key ?
I tried to download the app you referenced below but the link is dead and I am trying your solution to recover my wallet.
@webmacho writing down your 12 words recovery phrase during wallet creation is the most important step. Having those 12 words protects you from all potential issues — it can save you even if you forget your spending-password. It is very unfortunate that you forgot this phrase.
I have sen’t funds and downloaded paper wallet instuctions I tought that was it but money is now stuck in old wallet from what I don’t have a password or phrase
I believe you did not understand the paper-wallet feature. The idea behind it is that Daedalus generates a new wallet (which is in no way connected to any of the existing wallets you have in Daedalus) and then you can send ada from your other wallets to the wallet address listed on the paper wallet PDF.
. and then follow these steps:
Using Daedalus «Wallet importer» tool
- Salvage/save secret.key file from the previously used Daedalus installation by copying it to a safe location. This file can be found in the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus\Secrets-1.0\secret.key
macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/Secrets-1.0/secret.key
Linux:
- Uninstall any existing Daedalus installation and delete the state directory:
Windows: C:\Users[your user name]\AppData\Daedalus
macOS:
/Library/Application Support/Daedalus/
Linux:
- Install a special Daedalus edition (links provided above).
- Wait until Daedalus is fully synced and the main UI shown.
- Once the main UI is shown navigate to the «Wallet Importer» screen using application menu «Daedalus > Wallet Importer».
- Use the file-input field shown on the screen to open secret.key file salvaged from the previous Daedalus installation (described in step No. 1).
- Daedalus will extract wallets from the submitted secret.key file and show the list of discovered wallets.
- For each of the discovered wallets you will be able to see it’s balance and whether or not it is protected by a spending password.
- All the wallets that haven’t been protected by a spending password can be imported right away (note: wallet import process takes between 30 and 120 minutes depending on the machine speed and there can be only one active import process at the time).
- Use the «Passwords list» field to enter a list of up to 20 potential spending passwords and then click the «Match passwords» button in order to match them to your wallets.
- You can repeat step No. 10 until all the wallet passwords are matched.
- All the wallets you import using this tool will no longer be protected by a spending password which will enable you to transfer your ada to another wallet.
This will resolve your issues too @yuelipeng.
@sohosynergy the links have probably expired.
@disassembler @cleverca22 is there any way for us to restore these installers?
Links are not working. can you provide us with other working links?
My story. i upgraded to a bigger hard drive and install new windows operating system on the new hard drive. then i connect the old one to transfer all my files and when i look at the files on my old hard drive i can see all the scrennshot .png files in there but i can’t open it.
One of those .png files was my 12 seed words to my mainnet Daedalus wallet.
However i’m able to restore the incentivized testnet yoroi wallet with the 15 seed words.
My only option is to figure out how to restore it with the secret.key file which by the way appears to be encrypted.
If anyone knows a solution to this problem please help us and post it here.
Thanks in advance.
The links above not working. there’s any way we can restore Daedalus with the secret key file.
Any help is highly appreciated.
The problem is still actual. Need to recover my secret.key to. Please update links above (Windows version). Thanks a lot!
internal: correct linking of ↑: #2985
I am reaching out with almost similar problem. I have lost the spending password and the key phrase -daedalus wallet- byron. Can anything be done to retirieve the funds out of that wallet that it has been set up around 17-2018? I can see the funds on my laptop, I have the secret.key but I have no other information that would allow me to transfer the funds from this wallet to another. The password I’ve created is very long and has had a variety of characters that would be impossible to remember even if I tried 3 months straight to dig and remember.
Is iohk foundation able to help or is anything in the making to help retrieve these locked funds for all users?
An answer would be greatly appreciated thanks !
Hi,
I am reaching out with almost similar problem. I have lost the spending password and the key phrase -daedalus wallet- byron. Can anything be done to retirieve the funds out of that wallet that it has been set up around 17-2018? I can see the funds on my laptop, I have the secret.key but I have no other information that would allow me to transfer the funds from this wallet to another. The password I’ve created is very long and has had a variety of characters that would be impossible to remember even if I tried 3 months straight to dig and remember.
Is iohk foundation able to help or is anything in the making to help retrieve these locked funds for all users?
An answer would be greatly appreciated thanks !
Hi,
I am reaching out with almost similar problem. I have lost the spending password and the key phrase -daedalus wallet- byron. Can anything be done to retirieve the funds out of that wallet that it has been set up around 17-2018? I can see the funds on my laptop, I have the secret.key but I have no other information that would allow me to transfer the funds from this wallet to another. The password I’ve created is very long and has had a variety of characters that would be impossible to remember even if I tried 3 months straight to dig and remember.
Is iohk foundation able to help or is anything in the making to help retrieve these locked funds for all users?
An answer would be greatly appreciated thanks !
There is no tópic about losing all passwords. Been in this situation for years now. No help whatsoever
Hi,
I am reaching out with almost similar problem. I have lost the spending password and the key phrase -daedalus wallet- byron. Can anything be done to retirieve the funds out of that wallet that it has been set up around 17-2018? I can see the funds on my laptop, I have the secret.key but I have no other information that would allow me to transfer the funds from this wallet to another. The password I’ve created is very long and has had a variety of characters that would be impossible to remember even if I tried 3 months straight to dig and remember.
Is iohk foundation able to help or is anything in the making to help retrieve these locked funds for all users?
An answer would be greatly appreciated thanks !
I have hundreds of thounsends of dollars trapped in my Open wallet and no help Will Come friend. This is a very sad situation
I’ll have to sync with @nikolaglumac about the best way to proceed but I think it’d be great to have that feature back in the recovery feature because others may be in that situation; so it’ll likely end up in some future version of Daedalus Flight.
I can draft a PR to extend the current recovery feature to also process that file and extract the secret key out of it.
Any news about this? I’m a developer and I would like to contribute. Please let me know if there is a way I can help
I’ll have to sync with @nikolaglumac about the best way to proceed but I think it’d be great to have that feature back in the recovery feature because others may be in that situation; so it’ll likely end up in some future version of Daedalus Flight.
I can draft a PR to extend the current recovery feature to also process that file and extract the secret key out of it.
Any news about this? I’m a developer and I would like to contribute. Please let me know if there is a way I can help
Also looking for a solution for só long now.
I am sure there’s a solution for every problem. Iohk foundation must do something for the sake of it’s community. For the past 3 years I’ve read a lot about people like me that lost their funds due to different incidents and due to the rush in the market I can understand that such minor problem in the eyes of iohk foundation is not as important. But as time passes, the foundation must and shall dedicate to themselves to come up with something solve this issue. Cardano is not Terra Luna, and Charles Hoskinson is not Do Kwon. This can’t go just like that, as a matter fact you definitely take and lead by example as other projects lead the market if that is the overall goal.
@serjikc with all respect, the problem here is not about an incident. It’s about someone forgetting their passphrase. We have a dedicated team that filter this kind of requests so please contact our service desk here: https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360000877653-Daedalus-Mainnet
@serjikc with all respect, the problem here is not about an incident. It’s about someone forgetting their passphrase.
That is not completely true. At least in my case, it is about a wallet exported to a file in 2017, which is not being recognised by the current Daedalus wallet recovery feature. I forgot my recovery seed, but I perfectly remember my passphrase.
I am simply asking if there are any news on this and, if not, if there is a way for me to contribute in solving this backward-compatibility issue.
No, that’s actually good ending. We will certainly be able to do something for you 🙂
I’ll have to sync with @nikolaglumac about the best way to proceed but I think it’d be great to have that feature back in the recovery feature because others may be in that situation; so it’ll likely end up in some future version of Daedalus Flight.
I can draft a PR to extend the current recovery feature to also process that file and extract the secret key out of it.
I was just hoping to see some sort of update since these messages. Not necessarily a solution, but at least knowing that the issue is being worked out
@endlessbux, unfortunately, the colleagues who were trying to help you with the corrupted secret.key could not find any solution. Besides they don’t work at IO anymore. Our colleges in the service desk are already in touch with some people that actually are reporting the same problem and with the exact same secret.key. I can’t really do anything from the Daedalus Team side. please contact the service desk.
@endlessbux, unfortunately, the colleagues who were trying to help you with the corrupted secret.key could not find any solution. Besides they don’t work at IO anymore. Our colleges in the service desk are already in touch with some people that actually are reporting the same problem and with the exact same secret.key. I can’t really do anything from the Daedalus Team side. please contact the service desk.
No One can do anything! And no One Cares
@endlessbux, unfortunately, the colleagues who were trying to help you with the corrupted secret.key could not find any solution. Besides they don’t work at IO anymore. Our colleges in the service desk are already in touch with some people that actually are reporting the same problem and with the exact same secret.key. I can’t really do anything from the Daedalus Team side. please contact the service desk.
No One can do anything! And no One Cares
That is not true, a lot of time was spent here. And I am writing you in my weekend even!
Sorry for being direct with you, but you should ALWAYS save securely your recovery phrase
@serjikc with all respect, the problem here is not about an incident. It’s about someone forgetting their passphrase. We have a dedicated team that filter this kind of requests so please contact our service desk here: https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360000877653-Daedalus-Mainnet
My case is similar @danielmain I had my information saved on a flashdrive the spending password and the seed) — someone has erased the flash drive. — Now I have access to the desktop wallet with the funds but I am not able to transfer from the account to a new wallet due to missing password and seed. I have the secret key file but that doesn’t do anything other than just recover the wallet with the funds in it but can’t retrieve the funds due to the missing password and or seed.
@endlessbux, unfortunately, the colleagues who were trying to help you with the corrupted secret.key could not find any solution. Besides they don’t work at IO anymore. Our colleges in the service desk are already in touch with some people that actually are reporting the same problem and with the exact same secret.key. I can’t really do anything from the Daedalus Team side. please contact the service desk.
I’ll try to reach the service desk once again, but the last time I contacted them one year ago they couldn’t solve this problem.
Could you please direct me to the portion of code which used to generate the backup file?
I just find it very much disappointing that the Daedalus Team included this feature which actually turns out to not work at all. At least I would like to see if I can manage to deal with this by myself, considering the file is not corrupted and I remember my spending password.
Apologies for being direct but this lack of backward-compatibility caused me to lose my funds.
I gave up on 50 Grand
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2022, 5:00 PM Daniel Main @.> wrote: @endlessbux https://github.com/endlessbux, unfortunately, the colleagues who were trying to help you with the corrupted secret.key could not find any solution. Besides they don’t work at IO anymore. Our colleges in the service desk are already in touch with some people that actually are reporting the same problem and with the exact same secret.key. I can’t really do anything from the Daedalus Team side. please contact the service desk. No One can do anything! And no One Cares That is not true, a lot of time was spent here to help here. And I am writing you in my weekend even! Sorry for being direct with you, but you should ALWAYS save securely your recovery phrase — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1234 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS7OIOABF2S7MHJ2S4Y4SZTVQ5XQTANCNFSM4GLRZXHQ . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.>
Lost dar more than 50 grande friend and watched all my investment Lost during years of mental illness. Asking every chat you fórum or the support for Help and all people Will have say is «you should not lose the seed phrase»
I am starting a collaborative effort as part of CardanoSolutions/ByronWalletRecovery, trying to centralize all the existing knowledge, tools and content about this issue. If some have time and are interested in solving this, I encourage you to join and participate.
@danielmain if you can forward this to the current support team to let them know �� and possibly, let them redirect people to this repository once they’ve identified that they might be affected by this mysterious issue.