Importing Accounts

When switching to a new code binary, you may need to import your accounts from the old binary. In the following, we will describe the process of exporting accounts from a previous build and importing them to the latest release.

For the purpose of this tutorial we denote:

• aion-old the folder with the release that contains the accounts we want to import, and
• aion-new the new release that will be used in the future;

First, in a terminal, navigate to the old folder and get a list of all your accounts by typing:

cd aion-old
./aion.sh -a list

As output, you will get the list of public keys for your accounts, for example:

0xa0abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdab
0xa012341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412

Next, you need to obtain the private key associated with each account you want to export, by executing the command:

./aion.sh -a export 0xa0abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdab

You will be prompted to input the password for that account, and then your private key will be displayed:

Please enter your password: 
Your private key is: 0xabcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234

You will use this private key to import the account into your new installation:

cd aion-new
./aion.sh -a import 0xabcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234

After introducing the correct password associated with the account twice, the account will be imported:

Please enter a password: 
Please re-enter your password: 
The private key was imported, the address is: 0xa0abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdab

You can verify that the account exists in the new installation by running:

./aion.sh -a list

which should now display the imported account:

0xa0abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdab