Lost my 12 words recovery phrase

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Hi everyone,

I lost my 12 words recovery phrase and somehow the Daedalus wallet won’t open again. I think it’s because I have an old version. Is there anyway to restore the wallet? I tried to look for secret.key file too, but unfortunately, I don’t think I created one. :((( The only thing I have is the paper wallet certificate. Please, someone help! :cry:

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Hello,

But you sent ada to the papper wallet?

Thx

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I restored my paper wallet in new version but it’s empty, so I believe I’ve sent everything to the other wallet.

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Hello,

Sorry to hear this; Unfortunately all u can do for the moment is to try to think where did u stored the security phrase, maybe you wrote on a paper and u puted in a secure place…

I know IOHK working to a version which allow to restore your wallet from a previously version in case you lost the recovery phrase (based on secret.key file) … but for the moment is not available;

More details here

Goodluck,

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Oh, ok I’ll have to wait and try. Thanks so much for your help :+1: :+1:

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Similar problem here, cannot login with the old daeadalus wallet but i got 11/12 words of my passphrase - is there a way to bruteforce out the missing word?

Thx and best regards

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Yes, there is a way;
Do u know which word is missing?

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I have similar problem on my Yoroi wallet. I have 12 words for pharases but yoroi want to me 15 words. Is there any solution ?

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Hello,

If u have 12 seed words it means u have a Daedalus Byron wallet not Yoroi!
You can restore it in Yoroi by creating a new shelley Yoroi wallet and then restore the byron wallet inside

Cheers,

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Hello Alex,

No im sure. My wallet was shelley and also now delegated at pool. I know if it was byron i cant stake

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Right, but if it’s shelley then u should have :

  • 24 seed words Daedalus shelley wallet
  • 15 seed words Yoroi shelley wallet;
  • hw wallet and no seed words required;

Cheers,

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You are right i think these words missing. Because i havent got any kind of different wallet. If i miss 3 words of that can i take my account back and How ?

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I think will be very hard and will take time (anyway I can’t help u) to find the 3 missing words… because u don’t even know which are missing… from the beginnin, or from the end…

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Hi, I have got such a unpleasant problem couse the device where i had my daedalus recovery phase broke down. I am logged in to my wallet, know password. Is it possible to recover my “recovery phase”?
I would be grateful for answer.

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Hi, since you know your spending password, you can create a new wallet and then send your funds there. Best of luck.

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How do I see my 15 word recovery phrase on Yoroi wallet I have access to it on my phone.

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you can’t!
you can try to move your ada to another wallet if u remember the spending password!
Have u lost the seed words for your wallet?

Cheers,

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hello, i have a similar problem i wrote the 8th word wrong all of rest of the words are right and im not sure what to do to recover my wallet

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Here is the list of valid words, in case that helps.

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Hi,

I have the same problem. I only have 12 words for the Yoroi wallet.
Because that’s all I got. The ADA is staked in the Yoroi wallet.
Did you find a solution to the problem?