# Lightning Terminal Pool Account Recovery
**URL:** https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-terminal-pool-account-recovery/13739
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting
**Created:** [September 23, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-terminal-pool-account-recovery/13739 "2023-09-23T01:52:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Brabbit](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Brabbit)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-terminal-pool-account-recovery/13739/1 "2023-09-23T01:52:23Z")
I am trying to recover my Pool account at Lightning Terminal, following the instructions from [Troubleshooting - Builder’s Guide (lightning.engineering)](https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/troubleshooting), but I am getting this error:
_[pool] rpc error: code = Unknown desc = error performing recovery: could not recover account xxxxxx: error during authentication, before sending subscribe: server sent unexpected error_
If I repeat the procedure the error changes to:
_[pool] rpc error: code = Unknown desc = error performing recovery: could not recover account 03c374a82b9c4871420cd8826cace952ec29e14b019282b19fb909428de7c9e2e4: account xxxx is already subscribed, cannot recover_
I am afraid of loosing my funds!
Do anybody know how to complete the recovery, or who can help me?
Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-terminal-pool-account-recovery/13739/2 "2023-09-23T09:50:24Z")
Hi there,
Just to confirm, are these funds in your lightning wallet or specifically in the pool account?
Unfortunately I’m not too familiar with the Pool recovery process, so it may instead be worth raising this as an issue with the LND team: [Issues · lightningnetwork/lnd · GitHub](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues)
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### Author:  [@Brabbit](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Brabbit)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-terminal-pool-account-recovery/13739/3 "2023-09-25T17:37:19Z")
Hi
The funds are in my pool account.
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### Author:  [@bpafoshizle](https://community.umbrel.com/u/bpafoshizle)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-terminal-pool-account-recovery/13739/4 "2025-06-15T00:46:18Z")
Did you ever get this figured out? Having the same issue atm.
```auto
pool --rpcserver=localhost:8443 --tlscertpath=/data/.lit/tls.cert --macaroonpath=/data/.pool/mainnet/pool.macaroon accounts recover
[pool] rpc error: code = Unknown desc = error performing recovery: could not recover account 029b...7b22: account 029b...7b22 is already subscribed, cannot recover
```
And when trying to see accounts, I don’t even see anything.
```auto
pool --rpcserver=localhost:8443 --tlscertpath=/data/.lit/tls.cert --macaroonpath=/data/.pool/mainnet/pool.macaroon accounts list
{
"accounts": []
}
```
So I’m curious how it is finding the account it lists when you try to recover (in my case the `029b...7b22` account number (what is that?). I don’t know what my trader\_key or anything would be to try to recover funds later.
When a pool expires, do the funds automatically get sent back to my address, or do I have to do/know something to recover them (like the trader\_key)?