# Circular instructions on new bisq setup

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/circular-instructions-on-new-bisq-setup/6920>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/circular-instructions-on-new-bisq-setup/6920 "2019-01-15T04:28:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/littlebit2big/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/u/littlebit2big)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/circular-instructions-on-new-bisq-setup/6920/1 "2019-01-15T04:28:51Z")

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Setting up a brand new bisq account, I first clicked on WALLET PASSWORD, entered and confirmed a new pw, and clicked SET PASSWORD. I then get a pop-up “highly recommending” to make a backup of the application dir and write down seed words “before setting a password”. My options in this dialog box are GO TO “ACCOUNT.WALLET SEED”, “I HAVE ALREADY DONE A BACKUP”, and “CLOSE”. So I perform a backup first but then if I try to set a wallet password, I get the above “write down seed words before setting a password” so i click "GO TO ACCOUNT WALLET/SEED but it warns “You have not setup a wallet password which would protect the display of the seed words”. So catch 22. What is the proper way to do this?

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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:** [January 15, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/circular-instructions-on-new-bisq-setup/6920/2 "2019-01-15T06:07:51Z")

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I would write down the seed words first and then set a wallet password.  
But either way you should do both, I don’t think the order matters.