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title: "Restoring your Monero Wallet"
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title-pre-kick: "Restoring your "
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title-kick: "Monero "
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title-post-kick: "Wallet"
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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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## Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac
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### Account Software: monero-wallet-cli
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- Retrieve your 25 word @mnemonic-seed that you saved when creating your old Monero @wallet
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- Open a command prompt and navigate to the drive and directory that contains monero-wallet-cli
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- At the command prompt type: `monero-wallet-cli --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 you will be prompted to repeat the 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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- You will then be prompted with "Restore from specific blockchain height (optional, default 0):" Default will start the restore process from the beginning of the Monero blockchain. If you don't know the specific blockchain height, just hit enter. (Specifying a specific blockchain height will start the restore process from that specific height. This will save a bit of time in scanning, if you know what starting blockchain height your initial funds were transacted for this specific account.)
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After you have entered the 25 word mnemonic seed and have chosen your specific blockchain height, monero-wallet-cli will generate the same public address and view key as your old wallet and begin the refresh process automatically. (Please be patient as the refresh process may take a while.)
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