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Original Content by Tigger on September 5, 2018

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Launch your Arizen Wallet

The first form you can see is asking to log in or offers an options to create a new wallet. See Figure 1.3.

NOTE: your account/wallet file is encrypted and stored ONLY on your local system - offline backups are highly recommended

There are three possible situation what do as the next step:

  1. You have already worked with Arizen wallet on your computer (and your computer wasn’t reinstalled or you haven’t reinstalled the Arizen wallet) 

    • Fill the Wallet Name, and Password and click on Login. Continue in using Arizen as usual.

  2. You haven’t worked with Arizen before and don’t have any previous backup

    • You have to create a new wallet. Click on Create Wallet. Then, you’re asked to fill the Wallet Name, Password, and Password again. Then, click on Create Wallet. See Figure 1.4. While filling in your credentials, you can will notice some restrictions regarding the Wallet Name and Password. See Figures 1.5 and 1.6. After successful creation of your new wallet, you can normally Login.

  3. You have had a previous backup of your Arizen wallet

    • On the first page (see Figure 1.3), click on Create Wallet. Now you can see the form for creation of wallet (See Figure 1.4). Click in the box next to "Do you have previous backup?" and select your backup.

    • Your previous backup can be saved as *.awd (Arizen wallet database = encrypted) or *.uawd (un-encrypted Arizen wallet database) file, see Figure 1.7 and 1.8

    • You can choose the file by clicking on "Browse" button. If you have an imported wallet in *.awd format, you have to fill your Old Wallet Name and Old Password.

      NOTE: the Wallet Name of your new wallet has to have a different name as the name of your backup! See Figure 1.7 and 1.8.
    • Click on Create Wallet.
    • Now your wallet has been created and you can Login with your credentials.

Figure 1.3: The first form you will see after launching the Arizen wallet.

Figure 1.4: First time users should start by creating a new wallet.

Figure 1.5: Wallet name must have at least four letters.

Figure 1.6: Password must conform to strict requirements.

Figure 1.7: Choosing a *.uawd wallet to restore from requires no additional credentials to restore. A fakepath file location is used to mask file location from potential eavesdroppers.

Figure 1.8: Choosing a *.awd will require additional credentials from the old wallet being restored. Note that the new wallet name must be different from the old wallet name.




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