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Title: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 01:00:59 PM How do I restore a wallet backup?
I had some qt files installed on a computer and I backup up the wallets. I restalled that computer and how do I get the wallet to restore those coins that were in those wallets? thanks Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: PTseller on January 23, 2014, 01:05:33 PM Hi mate in this case replace your backup wallet with new wallet !!
you can find new wallet here -->> Type in run command -> %appdata% and you can find your coin folder and inside it you can see new wallet, replace it with backup wallet Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: Mark™ on January 23, 2014, 01:07:11 PM By importing your wallet's secret key in the client.
Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 01:11:00 PM By importing your wallet's secret key in the client. I tried coping the wallet.dat file over the old one and that did not work. So I need to wallet backup and a secret key? How do I importing your wallet's secret key in the client Thanks for your help Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: Mark™ on January 23, 2014, 01:12:17 PM By importing your wallet's secret key in the client. I tried coping the wallet.dat file over the old one and that did not work. So I need to wallet backup and a secret key? How do I importing your wallet's secret key in the client Thanks for your help Don't you remember your wallet's secret key or did you not save it somewhere else from where you can fetch in the hour of emergency ? Example of a private/secret key - http://gyazo.com/b3c436b5d0391869d2921539f8d77ca6.png Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: maardein on January 23, 2014, 01:12:30 PM replacing the wallet.dat with the backup should work, as long as you call it wallet.dat, and no other names.. Did you wait until the sync was complete?
Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 01:15:30 PM By importing your wallet's secret key in the client. I tried coping the wallet.dat file over the old one and that did not work. So I need to wallet backup and a secret key? How do I importing your wallet's secret key in the client Thanks for your help Don't you remember your wallet's secret key or did you not save it somewhere else from where you can fetch in the hour of emergency ? I did not know I needed a secret key. How do you get one so that I know in the furture? Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 01:17:22 PM replacing the wallet.dat with the backup should work, as long as you call it wallet.dat, and no other names.. Did you wait until the sync was complete? I tried coping the wallet.dat file over the old one and that did not work. I also backed up the whole appdata folder so I had all of the wallet and the other data and I tired copy all of that and that did not work. Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 01:22:05 PM replacing the wallet.dat with the backup should work, as long as you call it wallet.dat, and no other names.. Did you wait until the sync was complete? I tried coping the wallet.dat file over the old one and that did not work. I also backed up the whole appdata folder so I had all of the wallet.dat and the other data and I tired copy all of that and that did not work. Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 01:33:44 PM I figured it out.
For the 42 coins this worked. I opened a command line window then type in '42-qt.exe -datadir='c:\location of wallet' -rescan and that restore my wallet address and all of the coins. Yeah! Now I just need to do that to those other wallets. Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 04:23:15 PM So, Now I got something weird going on. If I open the wallet at the command line with the -rescan it shows all of the coins and I can send them to another address like an exchange. When I just double click on the wallet it opens with a different receive address and shows no coins. It does the same when I delete the block block chain and it reload/resync.
So I guess I'm going to open the wallet at the command line (old wallet address) and sent some coins to the new address and see if they appear. or I'm going to try and get the secret key and try to import it like that but I'm not sure how to get the secret key. Thanks for the help Title: Re: How do I restore a wallet backup Post by: TimFChavez on January 23, 2014, 04:54:52 PM So, Now I got something weird going on. If I open the wallet at the command line with the -rescan it shows all of the coins and I can send them to another address like an exchange. When I just double click on the wallet it opens with a different receive address and shows no coins. It does the same when I delete the block block chain and it reload/resync. So I guess I'm going to open the wallet at the command line (old wallet address) and sent some coins to the new address and see if they appear. or I'm going to try and get the secret key and try to import it like that but I'm not sure how to get the secret key. Thanks for the help Ok. So I had a dumb ass attack. I see my mistake. I put them in the 'C:\Users\User Name\AppData' folder and not the 'C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming' folder. All is good now. |
