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title: "Restoring your Monero Account"
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title-pre-kick: "Restoring your "
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title-kick: "Monero "
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title-post-kick: "Account"
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kick-class: "purple-kicks"
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icon: "icon_userguides"
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attribution: "<!-- Icon is based on work by Freepik (http://www.freepik.com) and is licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0 -->"
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2015-07-23 19:18:21 +00:00
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## Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac
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2015-07-23 19:11:33 +00:00
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### Account Software: Simplewallet
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- Retrieve your 25 word @mnemonic-seed that you saved from creating your old Monero @account
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- Open a command prompt and navigate to the drive and directory that contains simplewallet
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- At the command prompt type: simplewallet --restore-deterministic-wallet
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- Once you Press enter you will be prompted for a wallet file name. Give your wallet a new name, any name will do
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- Press enter again and you will be prompted for a password. Give your wallet a new and long password
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- Press enter again and you will be prompted for the 25 word electrum style mnemonic seed that you retrieved earlier
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