# Can I recover the restrictions from my old account?

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/can-i-recover-the-restrictions-from-my-old-account/6650>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 24, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/can-i-recover-the-restrictions-from-my-old-account/6650 "2018-11-24T17:41:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![idk](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/idk/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@idk](https://bisq.community/u/idk)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/can-i-recover-the-restrictions-from-my-old-account/6650/1 "2018-11-24T17:41:26Z")

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I changed my machine so I had to reinstall Bisq, and now I have a brand new account that suffers from the typical new account limits.

Is there any way to link this new account with my old account which had less restrictions? I no longer have access to my old laptop with the Bisq intallation, but I still have the bank transfers logged in my bank transfers history, so I can prove that I know when transfers went out and how much

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**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/can-i-recover-the-restrictions-from-my-old-account/6650/2 "2018-11-24T18:16:13Z")

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> [@idk](#):
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> Is there any way to link this new account with my old account which had less restrictions?

Yes.  
Follow this procedure: [Carry over account age witness to new data directory](https://bisq.community/t/carry-over-account-age-witness-to-new-data-directory/5605)

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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/can-i-recover-the-restrictions-from-my-old-account/6650/3 "2018-11-24T23:37:51Z")

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Unless you made a copy of your old data directory, no.  
If you can’t access it anymore, I am afraid it is lost now.

The account age is a decentralized system, like everything in Bisq, if you lost the hash that proved your account’s age, there is nothing anyone can do about it now.