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Pretty much my own fault.

I recently claimed my clams that were sat on the block chain for god knows how long.

So i Imported several keys into my windows wallet, then imported the wallet.dat into the clams wallet.

The one thing I failed to follow though was the fact I should have emptied my wallet before I began.

SO now when I look in my wallet its says I have X amount but if I try and spend X amount it tells me there isn't enough and that it must have been spent from a different wallet before I imported.

Which is correct.

Is there anything I can do now to get a true reading in my wallet ?

Thanks

Seems like this probably belongs in the alt-coin section where they'd probably know a bit more about clams, e.g. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623147.0

:-)

Its the bitcoin wallet that is acting up ?

Emptying your wallet is just for your own safety AFAIK, it's not really a requirement. What are the BTC addresses? Check them on the blockchain and sweep them into a new wallet.

I think this was  one i imported into my win wallet:

1GenieDV5mnSaavWZ2se98rBSW6VeDYFVa

I dont understand what you mean by sweep ?

This is what I get when I try and send coins from my main windows wallet :

http://thefaucet.info/images/Image11.png

You must assume your keys are already compromised because you put them on your CLAM wallet, so no issue if you dump your priv key and put them in another wallet.dat. Then you can move the funds :)

Ok im a bit of a noob when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Please tell me what to do, as long as I keep my address I dont care.... its driving me nuts lol

#1 rule in tech support, think before you follow someones advice. Sadly recently more and more people post advice to get paid for their posts and not because they want to help someone.

What your wallet is telling you is that it has no idea how many bitcoins you actually have. This can happen if you have private keys in different wallets. You said "i Imported several keys into my windows wallet" which I assume is the wallet that is now causing problems.

I assume further that your client is fully synced. If not, let it sync first. That might solve the issue without you doing anything but wait.

If its synced and you still have the problem you can launch bitcoin core with -zapwallettxes . This will cause the client to remove all transactions from the wallet and start rebuilding the information from the first block. This will take several hours as the client has to rescan the full blockchain.

In order to launch bitcoin core in this way, hit Win+R to open the "run" dialog, enter the full path (adjust from the below if needed), append the command and click ok.

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood where the problem was.


First, backup what you have.  So no matter what happens, you have your private keys backed up.

Second, what wallet are you using?  Bitcoin Core presumably?

Third, Shorena had good advice regarding whether it is synced fully or not.

Fourth, you can look at your addresses in one of the block explorers (e.g. blockr.io blockchain.info etc) and see where the coins actually are - not the clams, but the bitcoins.

Thanks, what you have suggested I did and all is fine now :)

Its much appreciated that people like you and cr1776 help others like me !