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I've had this several times happen to me where I would restore an old wallet and there would be no transactions until I re-download the whole block chain from scratch (tried replacing it with recent blockchain nightly from http://bitcoin.bluematt.me/bitcoin-nightly/blockchain-nightly/ but it didn't work either). Why is this happening?

(hoping re-downloading will solve this issue since there is quite a sum on this current wallet I'm trying to restore...)

First off, any wallet created and used with a client after version 0.3.21 won't have this issue. Otherwise, if you are using a client 0.3.20 or higher, just start it with the -rescan command line.

this is a wallet created with 0.3.21. I tried -rescan and it didn't help either. This is the third time it happened to me so I'm pretty sure this is some kind of a bug. It doesn't happen with all wallets though, some work perfectly fine. Wallet has been backed up before all those transactions were made to it, might be relevant?

edit: downloaded the blockchain nightly from 1 day before the first transaction to that wallet was made and let the client download the rest and now it's all there. So the question is: what does happen during blockchain download that doesn't with wallet rescan?

edit2: restored from backup again from block 126000 and now only transactions after that one show up.

You have to delete the "blkindex.dat" file whenever you change the wallet.dat so it can re-search for the block index.  ;)

yes I have, blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat (otherwise I wouldn't get the old blockchain, would I?).

And another bug http://i55.tinypic.com/n6dft2.png (http://i55.tinypic.com/n6dft2.png) (check the balance  ::))