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url: /usage-guides/settings/account.md
description: >-
  Manage rotki account and security settings: change your password, configure
  database backups, adjust backend options, and purge stored data when needed.
---

# Account & Database Settings

## Account Settings

### Changing Password

Choose the "Security" section to change the user password.

![Changing the user's password](/images/usage-guides/settings/account/user_password_change.webp)

### Password Confirmation

When using auto-login, you can enable periodic password confirmation to ensure you still remember your password. Toggle the setting on or off and set the confirmation interval in days (between 1 and 14). Disabling this setting will show a warning, since forgetting your password while using auto-login means losing access to your account.

## Database Settings

### Database Info & User Database Backups

View information about your user and global database, such as directory, size, and version.

![Creating database backups](/images/usage-guides/settings/account/db_backup.webp)

Create new database backups, delete backups, and download backups locally.

### Cloud sync integrity checks

For premium users syncing the database to rotki's cloud, rotki verifies the database before it moves
in either direction. It runs an integrity check before uploading a backup, and again on a downloaded
copy before that copy replaces your local database.

If a check fails, the sync is abandoned and rotki reports the problem rather than continuing. That
stops a corrupt local database from overwriting a good remote copy, and a corrupt download from
overwriting a good local one.

### Purging Data

rotki keeps a lot of data cached locally. Clean this data periodically from the "Manage Data" section in the settings. Remove specific exchanges by first removing any active API keys.

![Purging user data](/images/usage-guides/settings/account/purge_data.webp)

### Exporting and Importing User Assets

Use the export/import function to migrate user assets between computers. This function creates a zip archive of user assets for transfer.

![Importing user assets](/images/usage-guides/settings/account/custom_import_export.webp)

> \[!WARNING]
> This archive cannot be used as a backup/restore across different versions of rotki since there is no guarantee of compatibility across versions.

### Reset Assets Database

There are two options to reset the assets database:

1. **Soft Reset**: This option will not reset assets added by the user.
2. **Hard Reset**: This option will reset assets added by the user.

## Backend Settings

Desktop app users can change the default data directory and log directory via the login screen. Click the cog wheel at the bottom right to view the backend settings dialog.

![Change the backend settings](/images/usage-guides/settings/account/backend.webp)

Select a new data directory, log directory, etc., and press "Save". Previously created accounts won't be accessible in the new location; move them manually.

### Advanced Backend Settings

Modify the following settings in the advanced section:

* **Max log size**: Maximum size (MB) of all logs for a single run.
* **Max number of log files**: Maximum number of backup (rotated) logs for a single run.
* **Instructions per SQLite context switch**: Specify instructions count for context switch between cooperative threads. Set to `0` to disable async DB access.
* **Log from other modules**: Include log entries from dependent libraries, not just rotki. Disabled by default.