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Hi everyone,

I have a quick question. If I upgrade my QT wallet from 0.8.5 to the newest version. Can I just directly upgrade it? without backing up? Will my bitcoins show after the upgrade. The reason I ask its better to be safe than sorry when upgrading. Got burned in other coins when I decide to do an upgrade on the QT wallet? Thanks

Yes it should be fine.

But of course you have backed up your wallet anyway right, so if anything did go wrong you could simply restore your backup and run the old bitcoin-qt.

Backups are great.

Thanks grifferz. Probably going to use all the bit before I do it. lol

Is there any real change to the new QT wallet?

Everything should be good when you upgrade.

Even then you should have the wallet.dat copy incase anything goes wrong you can restore

all you need create another directory put new qt there and click
if you see it works then remove old one...

Thanks guys. Any new perks to the new upgrade. Always wonder. You know how windows is. every time you upgrade something goes wrong.

Agreed i remember my first time 3 times backup things every where become wallet.dat anyway feel safer.

You can upgrade without backing up but its risky :)

I just never understood Window OS. You pay them like what 180$ for there software. Windows last for what 3-5 days at most without crashing. While Linux and Unix last for 30 days without a restart.

What if i told you that my windows runs until i restart it manually to update and my linux machine uptime is more than 2 years?

I believe you in heart beat. The fact is Linux is a much better OS system

backup  is the key to your question. Although I don't think that you'll lose you coins after updating it is always better to have plan B in case something goes wrong