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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: BitCoinNutJob on February 10, 2014, 03:19:46 AM



Title: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: BitCoinNutJob on February 10, 2014, 03:19:46 AM
Having troubles with my laptop right now but my wallet is backed up (after i've encrypted it) on a flash drive.  If my laptop blows up what skill level is needed to compile the backup of my wallet from the flash drive on a new computer?


Title: Re: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: Sonny on February 10, 2014, 03:26:09 AM

Having troubles with my laptop right now but my wallet is backed up (after i've encrypted it) on a flash drive.  If my laptop blows up what skill level is needed to compile the backup from the flash drive on a new computer?

Depending on the wallet software, it could be from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. :)


Title: Re: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: BitCoinNutJob on February 10, 2014, 03:27:56 AM

the bitcoin QT wallet, is that easy?



Title: Re: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: Sonny on February 10, 2014, 04:10:00 AM

the bitcoin QT wallet, is that easy?



Just Upload your wallet.dat here.
https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet



Title: Re: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: BitCoinNutJob on February 10, 2014, 05:53:34 AM

sweet cheers


Title: Re: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on February 10, 2014, 05:55:33 AM

the bitcoin QT wallet, is that easy?



Step 1: copy the a file (the backup of wallet.dat) to a folder (google bitcoin data directory).
Step 2: Run bitcoin.


Title: Re: How hard is it to complie a wallet if you have the backup
Post by: Sonny on February 10, 2014, 07:58:20 AM

sweet cheers

Your are welcome :)

Step 1: copy the a file (the backup of wallet.dat) to a folder (google bitcoin data directory).
Step 2: Run bitcoin.

The only problem is that not everyone have the 16GB block data readily on a computer.   :)