Add a new device

What you'll do: Set up Oten Drive on a second Mac (or your iPhone) and restore your vaults.

Why it matters: Your identity lives in your User Key, not in any one device. With your User Recovery Key you can restore access anywhere — and the server never held a key to help or hinder.

Steps

1. Install and open Oten Drive on the new device.

2. Sign in with the same Oten account.

3. When prompted, import your User Recovery Key to restore your account identity.

4. The app automatically pulls your vault list.

5. Open each vault or Drive with its password to bring the encrypted data down and unlock it. For a vault with Shadow Layers, enter the password for the layer you want.

If you've lost your User Key

• Use Send request for losing User Key from the app to start the recovery path, or restore via your User Recovery Key if you still have it. Without either, the account identity — and therefore the encrypted data tied to it — cannot be restored.

Common mistakes

• Retyping the recovery key by hand. Paste it to avoid transcription errors; it must match exactly.

• Expecting files without opening the vault. The list restores automatically, but files stay sealed until you unlock the vault with its password.

• Forgetting to enable sync on the new device, then wondering why changes don't appear.

Moving a Drive to a different owner or machine? See Transfer a Drive.