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Title: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Ilanoh on December 18, 2013, 12:10:06 PM Hello!
I still have an old version of bitcoins. I bought some a few years ago totally randomly. I want to upgrade my wallet withou loosing my coins. Thanks Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: torusJKL on December 18, 2013, 12:29:41 PM Hello! I still have an old version of bitcoins. I bought some a few years ago totally randomly. I want to upgrade my wallet withou loosing my coins. Thanks 1. Backup your wallet.dat file. 2. Upgrade Bitcoin-Qt client 3. done If something breaks you have your wallet.dat file with all the private keys. And by the way you should backup the wallet.dat file as safe as possible. Best on multiple continents :-) . If you delete it or it get's corrupted you will never be able to access your bitcoins anymore. Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Ilanoh on December 18, 2013, 12:55:34 PM thanks but what is wallet.dat? how do I do it?
Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: hellfrozenow on December 18, 2013, 01:07:14 PM thanks but what is wallet.dat? how do I do it? You can just make backup inside Bitcoin-qt Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Orlant on December 18, 2013, 01:11:02 PM thanks but what is wallet.dat? how do I do it? Are you using bitcoin-qt? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Default_Location Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: skyisthelimit on December 18, 2013, 01:32:46 PM keep wallet.dat and peers.dat files and delete the other files and now you can update to the new version
Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Ilanoh on December 18, 2013, 01:35:31 PM Yes it's an old version, my wallet is actually catching up blocks from more than 360 days ago... How long will this last? Does it take a lot of place on my drive?
The only thing I can do with this wallet is Encrypt Wallet with a passphrase, should I do it? Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: udet4food on December 18, 2013, 01:36:01 PM keep wallet.dat and peers.dat files and delete the other files and now you can update to the new version Deleting any file is not neccessary! Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: udet4food on December 18, 2013, 01:38:08 PM Yes it's an old version, my wallet is actually catching up blocks from more than 360 days ago... How long will this last? Does it take a lot of place on my drive? The only thing I can do with this wallet is Encrypt Wallet with a passphrase, should I do it? About 15 GB total. You should Encrypt your Wallet with a passphrase from start, but remember the passphrase :) There is backup option in file menu as well. Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Lexomatico on December 18, 2013, 01:49:53 PM The wallet.dat is located at C:/users/you/Appdata/Roaming/Bitcoins
The Appdata folder is hidden by default so turn on show hiffen files and folders in windows explorer. The wallet.dat is where all Bitcoins are stored. If you delete it you delete all your bitcoins and they are gone forever. Downloading the whole blockchain could take a few days so no time to hurry If you need any with setting this all up leave me a message. I wanted to help you earlier but you can do a post only every 2 million years on this sh... board Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Ilanoh on December 18, 2013, 01:51:37 PM Ok thank you guys! I will try to handle all this!
Well I'm on a mac F... I don't have appdata, and my bitcoin folder only contain Portfile, so I'm a bit lost I don't know anything about all this Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Eveap92 on December 18, 2013, 03:32:14 PM Ok thank you guys! I will try to handle all this! Well I'm on a mac F... I don't have appdata, and my bitcoin folder only contain Portfile, so I'm a bit lost I don't know anything about all this Dude, someone up there has already given you the wiki link https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Default_Location Quote Mac By default Bitcoin will put its data here: Code: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: torusJKL on December 19, 2013, 06:06:02 AM Ok thank you guys! I will try to handle all this! Well I'm on a mac F... I don't have appdata, and my bitcoin folder only contain Portfile, so I'm a bit lost I don't know anything about all this If you are not a heavy bitcoin user then I would recommend to you to migrate to a lighter client. For example Electrum (http://electrum.org/) which is also available for OS X. The advantage is that you don't have to download the blockchain thus usage is almost instantaneously. And that you can recover all your bitcoins from a seed that you can write down or memorize when you create the wallet. If you want to migrate I think the easiest way would be to send the bitcoins from your bitcoin-qt wallet to an address in your new Electrum wallet. Title: Re: How to update Bitcoin without loosing bitcoins Post by: Crypto Currency! on December 19, 2013, 08:05:15 AM Backup your .dat file and import to new update.
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