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Title: total newbie question but i have to double check Post by: cryptohunter on May 02, 2013, 10:08:54 AM Hi,
I just want to make sure i am doing this 100% correctly. I just want to know how to back up my litecoin wallet and my feathercoin wallet. My laptop is going crazy lately and although i only have a few coins of these new variety and no bitcoins :( i still want to make sure i don't lose them. So is this the correct way to do it 1 - encrypt the wallet with a password 2- close the wallet and open it again so encryption takes place 3- go to that appdata/roaming folder and make a copy of the wallet.dat and copy it to my 2 external drives. ( does the wallet need to be closed when i make this copy?) any help will be great thanks :) Title: Re: total newbie question but i have to double check Post by: Morning on May 02, 2013, 10:23:12 AM Yes, I think you got it right. Save the wallet.dat on a secure place and dont lose the password, there is no way to get it back once lost - no email recover, etc. Neither of them.
I would also suggest to rename the wallet.dat to something a little more vulgar because of hacking. I think I lost mine that way after mining bitcoins for 6 month (6bitcoin lost). Learned my lesson - live to tell :). (although I still consider myself a newbie, for several reasons). Title: Re: total newbie question but i have to double check Post by: Wed on May 02, 2013, 10:25:39 AM Yep you should close your wallet before you copy it
Title: Re: total newbie question but i have to double check Post by: cryptohunter on May 02, 2013, 11:09:57 AM thanks gentlemen that's exactly what i wanted to know :)
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