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Title: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: bitcoin_newb on October 27, 2013, 10:42:36 AM
So my bitcoin QT application wont load now. When i try to open it, it quits unexpectedly.  I am using a Mac. osx 10.7.5

Anyway, my last backup was from about a month ago. I installed Bitcoin-Qt on another computer and did a rescan from my wallet.dat file and have recovered most of my coins, it is still sychronizing with network.


How can i recover the missing 30 btc that i have received since my last back up?


Please tell me this is possible, or this is going to be one of my most expensive fuck ups ever :(


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: avalonlove on October 27, 2013, 11:01:05 AM
Is your wallet still syncing? that could be the issue


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: bitcoin_newb on October 27, 2013, 11:04:13 AM
Hi Avalonlove, thanks for replying...

Yes my wallet is still synching!

Do you think they will come back once it has finished?


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: inspiredinvestor on October 27, 2013, 11:16:49 AM
Is your wallet still syncing? that could be the issue

allow it to fully sync (can take a lonnnnng time), but once done the coin should be there. :)


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: LeilaD. on October 27, 2013, 11:32:15 AM
Hello!
After you sinc your wallet the coins should be there. If you have some friend near there, try to replace his wallet.dat with yours, you'll see the coins are there. Don't worry.


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: DannyHamilton on October 27, 2013, 11:36:53 AM
The wallet pre-generates the next 100 addresses that it will use.

When you create a backup, these 100 addresses are included in the backup.

As long as you've used less than 100 addresses after the backup, all your transactions should re-appear once the wallet is done syncing.

If you used more than 100 addresses after the backup, then the most recent addresses are no backed up, and you will have permanently lost some bitcoins.


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: gooryheta on October 27, 2013, 02:28:11 PM
About the 100 addresses, one address is used whenever you create new address or send a BTC (used for change)


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: bitcoin_newb on October 28, 2013, 10:26:18 AM
Praise ye lord! My bitcoin have returned!

Thank you to everyone who replied, stopped me from having a heart attack.



Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: cagrund on October 28, 2013, 10:55:41 AM
Nice to hear.  ;)

So, the full re-synch took round about 48 hours?


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: bitcoin_newb on October 28, 2013, 11:04:48 AM
No the sync took less than 24 hours.  I started sunday morning around 10.00 am and it finished when i got up this morning at 8.00am


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: silvestar on October 28, 2013, 11:16:05 AM
Praise ye lord! My bitcoin have returned!

Thank you to everyone who replied, stopped me from having a heart attack.



Great to hear your good news. ;D

About the sync time, it is a bit long but you seldom need to go through it again (hopefully). :P

About the backup, as others mentioned, the wallet has only pre-generated 100 addresses. So, please make a backup from time to time, or you may increase the number of pre-generated address using the keypool option.


Title: Re: Please help me recover lost BTC!
Post by: Goldenboy on October 30, 2013, 06:06:25 PM
nice