# Daedalus and power cut

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996>\
**Category:** Community Technical Support\
**Created:** [27 March 2023 12:06 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996 "2023-03-27T12:06:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hermo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@hermo](https://forum.cardano.org/u/hermo)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 12:06 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996/1 "2023-03-27T12:06:21Z")

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This could also happen to you. I opened Daedalus Mainnet Wallet (Win10). The synchronization was in progress and the power went out in the apartment. When the power came back on I restarted the Daedalus program and all four of my wallets had disappeared from view.

I chose to restore the wallet. I entered the recovery phrase, it was accepted. I gave the wallet a name and password. Then I clicked “Continue” and got the error message “An error occured”. I was unable to proceed any further. I also noticed that the chain folder had been wiped almost empty. There was only 800 MB, when there should be over 100 GB.

I completely uninstalled Daedalus from windows and reinstalled it. That helped. Unfortunately, it takes several hours for a full synchronization.

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**Author:** ![Zyroxa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/zyroxa/32/17790_2.png) [@Zyroxa](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Zyroxa)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 13:34 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996/2 "2023-03-27T13:34:04Z")

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Thanks for the feedback. Are you aware of the lightwallet like Eternl or Typhon?

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**Author:** ![hermo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@hermo](https://forum.cardano.org/u/hermo)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 14:28 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996/3 "2023-03-27T14:28:37Z")

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Can you recommend lightwallet which support the restoration of Byron legacy wallets, because I want to keep the transfer history of the old wallet available? Soon I’ll have to switch to something lighter. Especially if I now have to start backing up a chain folder.

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**Author:** ![Zyroxa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/zyroxa/32/17790_2.png) [@Zyroxa](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Zyroxa)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 14:45 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996/4 "2023-03-27T14:45:31Z")

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I think there are only a few wallets which still supoorts Byron wallets.

As far as i know there is Yoroi and Adalite which supports Byron wallets.

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**Author:** ![HeptaSean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/heptasean/32/82306_2.png) [@HeptaSean](https://forum.cardano.org/u/HeptaSean)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 15:07 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-and-power-cut/115996/5 "2023-03-27T15:07:50Z")

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> [@hermo](#):
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> because I want to keep the transfer history of the old wallet available?

I would consider exporting the transfer history once and keep it around as a spreasheet or PDF. Or save the list of addresses you ever used and look up the history on [cardanoscan.io](http://cardanoscan.io) (or whatever block explorer is the go-to in the future).

Keeping a 100 GB full node wallet synchronised just for history seems a bit much to me.

> [@hermo](#):
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> Can you recommend lightwallet which support the restoration of Byron legacy wallets

You could try [adalite.io](http://adalite.io). Yoroi can only restore it’s own wallets, not Daedalus, as far as I can see (and only read-only on desktop).