# Account Age and Missing Blocks Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/account-age-and-missing-blocks-issues/7921 "2019-06-24T12:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![a123b](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/a123b/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@a123b](https://bisq.community/u/a123b)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/account-age-and-missing-blocks-issues/7921/2 "2019-06-24T12:36:33Z")
If you want to retain your account age, you also have to replace the _keys_ directory of your new installation with those of the old installation, see this topic: > [@Carry over account age witness to new data directory](https://bisq.community/t/carry-over-account-age-witness-to-new-data-directory/5605): > > If you move to a new data directory you need to export your account data and re-import it again. That will copy over the salt used for the account age witness which determines your trade limit (1 month 0.0625 BTC, 2. month 0.125 BTC, afterwards 0.25 BTC). Unfortunately I overlooked another important part when I implemented that feature: The signature pubKey is also used in the hash for the account age witness. So to successfully transfer your account without starting with the 1 month limit aga… ~~Quite honestly, I don’t get why you want a new installation. Unless there is a problem with the old one, I see absolutely no reason to make a new one.~~ Edit: Forgot the part about the app freezing with the old installation. But as it seems to be working again, I would forget about the second installation and focus on the old one. Also, the two installations do have different data directories, right? Could you post their full path? As for the block downloading issue, it would help to know what your status bar at the bottom of the application looks like. Do you have Bitcoin network peers and Bisq P2P network peers? --- _[View the full topic](https://bisq.community/t/account-age-and-missing-blocks-issues/7921)._