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#632 added guggeros recover article to FAQ

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Christian Rotzoll 6 years ago
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@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ This script will offer you a way to transfere the lnd-rescue file from your lapt
### 2) Recover from Wallet Seed
Remember those 24 words you were writing down during the setup? Thats your "cipher seed" - now this words are important to recover your wallet. If you dont have them anymore: go back to option "Recover LND data" and check all possible ways to recover data from the HDD. If you still have the word seed: good, but read the following carefully:
Remember those 24 words you were writing down during the setup? Thats your "cipher seed" - now this words are important to recover your wallet. If you dont have them anymore: go back to option "Recover LND data" (see above) and check all possible ways to recover data from the HDD. If you still have the word seed: good, but read the following carefully:
With the word seed you can recover the on-chain funds that LND was managing for you - but it does not contain all the details about the channels you have open - its mostly the key to your funding wallet. If you were able to close all channels or never opened any channels, then everything should be OK and the best esults to recover on-chain funds from wallet seeds are reported to get from installing the Lightning Labs App on your laptop and use the wallet seed (and same wallet passwords): https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-app/releases
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Then give LND some time to rescan the blockchain. In the end you will have restored your funding wallet. You maybe need to wait for your old channel counter parts to force close the old channels until you see the coins back displayed.
If you dont have the `channel.backup` file and only the seed words there is another last hope to try - read this article:
https://medium.com/@guggero/did-you-lose-funds-on-the-lightning-network-because-of-a-disk-crash-8971b6a92494
*Important: If you see a zero balance for on-chain funds after restoring from seed ... see details discussed [here](https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/issues/278) - you might try setup fresh this time with bigger look-ahead number.*
## What is this mnemonic seed word list?

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