I have a new laptop now and I don’t have access to the SSH key that I generated when I created the droplet for my website. Now, I have updated my website and I need to upload the updated files by connecting via SFTP using Transmit to my droplet, but I can’t connect because I do not have the key on my new laptop. Can anyone help me? THanks
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Hello,
What you would need to do in this case is to follow the steps here on how to recover access to your Droplet:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/resources/lost-ssh-key/
Once you’ve uploaded the new SSH key, you will be able to connect to the Droplet as normal.
Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby
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