BACK UP YOUR KEYSTORE FILE!!!!!!!!

BACK UP YOUR KEYSTORE FILE!!!!!!!


I have about six copies of my keystore, I don't understand why this
keeps happening to people. You should do this right away as soon as
you release to the market.

-niko

On Dec 11, 9:16 am, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> *> I'd like to upload a new version of my droidChat to the android market> 
> but when i press update, it sais i've signed the apk with a diferent
> > key than the one is in the market.
> > I've lost the other keystore because i've changed the PC and i can't
> > access to the previous one.
>
> *
> I believe I have read somewhere that once you sign an application and
> publish it with a specific keystore you MUST use the same keystore for other
> updates.  Unfortunately I think the only option is to release the update as
> a new application (put a note in the old one telling customers to get the
> new one instead).
>
> *> Is there any way to extract the previous key from the old apk and then
>
> > sign the new one with that key? What can I do?*
>
> I should certainly hope not!  That would throw security right out the
> window...
>
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>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:07 AM, [^MiSaTo^] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'd like to upload a new version of my droidChat to the android market
> > but when i press update, it sais i've signed the apk with a diferent
> > key than the one is in the market.
> > I've lost the other keystore because i've changed the PC and i can't
> > access to the previous one.
> > I've also asked google help with no response about this issue.
>
> > Is there any way to extract the previous key from the old apk and then
> > sign the new one with that key? What can I do?
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
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