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Title: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: xarchangelzerox on April 29, 2011, 03:54:11 AM So a couple days ago I got a shiny new SSD, installed windows 7 on it, started installing everything for my fresh OS.
I still have everything on my old HDD, windows install and everything, so I can always go back and boot from that drive (for now) to get information I might need After booting from my SSD, I loaded the bitcoin application from my HDD, but noticed that my balance was 0 and my address was different. I was a little confused, so I shut down and booted into my HDD to load bitcoin, and found that my balance was still intact when I boot from the HDD. I'm loading bitcoin from the same location in both boots...but only one of them shows my balance. Do I just have to send coins from my old wallet to my new one? Is this the way it's supposed to work? Am I missing something? Thanks! Title: Re: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: mewantsbitcoins on April 29, 2011, 03:58:29 AM First reason: you forgot to copy your wallet.dat. It goes in c:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
Note, that AppData is a hidden directory. Second: you have to download all the blocks to see the correct balance Title: Re: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: xarchangelzerox on April 29, 2011, 04:05:01 AM Thanks!
I knew it had to be something like that. Works like a charm now =D Title: Re: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: mewantsbitcoins on April 29, 2011, 04:06:43 AM No problemo!
Here to help ;) Title: Re: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: chungenhung on May 11, 2011, 06:35:52 PM First reason: you forgot to copy your wallet.dat. It goes in c:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin What exactly does "download all the blocks" mean?Note, that AppData is a hidden directory. Second: you have to download all the blocks to see the correct balance Title: Re: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: mewantsbitcoins on May 11, 2011, 06:46:21 PM You could read about it on wiki
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bitcoin#Block-chain_and_Confirmations In practical term it's a record of all the transactions that occurred and your client can only participate in the network if it's downloaded all of it. Currently it's block 123335 and is increasing ~every 10mins http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6497/screenshot20110511at194.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/screenshot20110511at194.png/) edit: oh, and it means that the very first time you start your bitcoin client it may take a little while before you can use it. Title: Re: New OS install...where'd my wallet go? Post by: Vasili Sviridov on May 12, 2011, 04:08:56 AM There used to be a blockchain torrent lying around. Maybe it's time to make a new one.
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