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Title: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: keystroke on May 19, 2013, 09:22:56 PM Why does the client rescan on startup even when it just created a new wallet? Seems unnecessary!
Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: DannyHamilton on May 20, 2013, 01:28:42 AM I assume you are asking about Bitcoin-Qt?
Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: keystroke on May 20, 2013, 05:17:03 AM I assume you are asking about Bitcoin-Qt? Yes. Sorry the lack of details. I am actually on 0.8.2rc. Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: mustyoshi on May 20, 2013, 05:22:22 AM I assume you are asking about Bitcoin-Qt? Yes. Sorry the lack of details. I am actually on 0.8.2rc. Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: keystroke on May 20, 2013, 10:20:27 PM I assume you are asking about Bitcoin-Qt? Yes. Sorry the lack of details. I am actually on 0.8.2rc. Sounds like a bug as the chance of this is extremely tiny. Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on May 20, 2013, 10:23:37 PM I assume you are asking about Bitcoin-Qt? Yes. Sorry the lack of details. I am actually on 0.8.2rc. Sounds like a bug as the chance of this is extremely tiny. Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: DannyHamilton on May 20, 2013, 11:27:33 PM it will be once in a human(race) lifetime to generate an existing address I doubt it will happen that often. But I suppose it is difficult to predict how long the human race will last Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: gmaxwell on May 21, 2013, 12:15:36 AM Not an intentional behavior, it's a side effect of a recent bugfix where recently salvaged wallets would not automatically rescan.
Title: Re: Rescanning even when new wallet is made? Post by: keystroke on May 21, 2013, 12:51:49 AM Not an intentional behavior, it's a side effect of a recent bugfix where recently salvaged wallets would not automatically rescan. Thanks gmaxwell. BTW you live in the Raleigh area, right? Should come to the meetup. |