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Hi

Used bitcoinfog to transfer coins from various wallets so i could pool them.  Made 20 addressees, set the thing going, waited a few minutes but nothing happened (using OSX Bitcoin-QT by the way). Noticed that it was an older beta version, which i'd used on my last machine build so i thought i'd upgrade to the version

Backed the wallet.dat file up, installed the later bitcongQT, opened it up to create the profile, including downloading the chain.

\I closed it down, copied the new wallet.dat to a separate location, replaced it with the previous one, and deleted the blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat file to force to the download of the blockchain again, but no coins show.,  The address book it the same, t's just got no coins.

so i have 184 coins in a chain, i have both old and new wallet.dat files, but not sure how to recover the coins,   The wallets aren't encrvypted as this was an interim install so i just wanted to collect them into one area

So, does anyone know how i could get these coins back? i have more to put in but i'm scared to do anything with the addresses lest they affect the previous transactions

any ideas please?  2 BTC to the first set of complete instructinons

cheers

Hoon

Is the coins still in the old wallets but the balance says 0? Please check the addresses on the old wallet on blockchain.info to see if they're still sitting there first.

Says total received zero but total sent is 187

No. Transactions    6    
Unspent Inputs    0
Total Received    187.16066453 BTC    
Final Balance    0 BTC

Then the coins should be in the address you've sent it to. Check that address at blockchain.info to see if it's there.

well it'll be spread over the twenty i set up to use wirth bitcoinfog, so there's a miltitude of coins there.  Is it just  a case of adding te initial addresss from theold address book int the new address book possibly?

Run the Bitcoin client from the command line with the -rescan flag.

typing
in a Terminal and pressing enter should start the process.
I imagine it shouldn't be that much different from Linux.

Altho when you downloaded a new blockchain with the wallet.dat where the coins were supposed to be it should've "catched" them.
Anyway, it takes a few minutes only. Worth a try ;)

Also, this may be a dumb question, but: Are you sure that Bitcoinfog already sent you the coins? AFAIK they don't send them instantly. You may have to wait for them to have coins from others so they can mix them.

Problem is the coins from the old addresses have been sent to bitcoinfog already, and bitcoinfog have sent the coins to the 20 addresses. Have bitcoinfog completed the sending yet? If yes, you can easily use pywallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0) to get the privatekeys of the 20 addresses, and manually import them to blockchain.info's online wallet. Reinstall the bitcoin client, and generate a new wallet. Use blockchain.info's online wallet to send all the coins to your new wallet.

i didn't think the osx version had command line support yet?

He can just run bitcoin-qt as a server and use the dumpprivkey command if all he needs is the private key.
Just like he can import the private keys with importprivkey.
No need for pywallet to do just that ;)

so which wallet file should be in place, the old one where addresses were created, or the new one from the later version i instsalled?

Okay, I'm used to old pywallet though.  ;D
However, he is using OSX, which I don't think has bitcoind, and therefore no commandline support yet IMO. Pywallet can work regardless of the system so I'm more inclined to use that.

as a server?  im confused, thought it was just a client

can this be down on the osx version?

For the new installation, a new wallet is needed as your old wallet (which were not showing the coins properly) should be corrupt. Just make sure to BACKUP ALL YOUR PREVIOUS WALLETS first!

There is no bitcoind but you can run bitcoin-qt with the -server flag which is the same. It was already like this on the 0.3 version, and it works regardless of the OS ;)
Or so I've been told :P

I'll suggest not to as you'll need to send curl commands to it.
To run as server, use:

ok, so i got both the old wallet.dat, the old-old walet.dat safely tucked away


Should i just re-install and start afresh, i have all the addresses including the defulats, but i didn;t use that for the transfer so not sure if this is required?

or is the server version gonna be faster? looks like a double bounty as well, yo've both been very helpful

Just get the privatekeys for the old wallet.dat either by psy's method (running as server and using dumpprivkey), or by using pywallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0), and load the keys to a online wallet like blockchain.info. Send everything in the addresses to the new wallet.dat, and everything should be fine.

Curl commands? Where did you get that idea, John?

Usage:
Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Command-line_arguments

BTW, hoonius, you haven't answered my question above.
Are you sure Bitcoinfog already sent you the coins?

Also, very important thing that sometimes get overlooked:
Before messing with your wallet.dat in any way, please do a backup to a safe place where you can grab it later if something goes wrong ;D

If I'm not wrong, I remember that on OSX you'll have to compile your own bitcoind as it's not included despite sourceforge claiming so when I ran Bitcoin on my Mac on Jan. I might be wrong now, as a new version of bitcoin might include the bitcoind.

Edit: The lack of bitcoind in OSX is widely documented: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54730.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=21956.0

yes, the balance on that address is zero so coins were alrerady sent out

and no bitcoind for OSX as far as i can see.  Where would it normally exist in linux?

There is no bitcoind binary. You must start bitcoin-qt from the command line with the server flag, as John exemplified here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88477.msg974150#msg974150. Leave that terminal open and open a new Terminal window. From the new terminal window you can pass it bitcoind commands as if bitcoind was running.

To dump a private key the syntax is (at least on linux, not sure if in Mac any other gimmick is needed)

replace <address> with the address for which you want to get the private key

If you run it in server mode, I don't think you can pass it commands directly without the curl scheme or json-rpc calls ...I've yet to fire up my mac though so I could be wrong.

hoonius,
is the coins in the 20 addresses already? If blockchain.info shows they're in, and your bitcoin client says not, then just dump the keys to online wallet, and send the balance to new wallet .

w2ell it's all good practice casue i'm getting sick of OSX and moving more to linux so all this bitcoind info is great also

I checked a few of the addressees and there are coins in them

don;t i nee to extract this private ket first though?

Extract the keys first, yes. Either by psy's way or pywallet will do. Then go make an account at blockchain.info, import the keys there, send the coins to your new wallet.

You can in Linux and Windows for sure. No Curl or json-rpc needed. On Mac...
Found the answer http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2570/bitcoin-qt-command-line-control-on-mac
You really need to pass rpc commands with curl, like you said.

Time for you to install all the pywallet dependencies, hoonius. Can't find any rpc command or at least an example of it for dumpprivkey.

well it's asking me to isntall BSDBB now so we'll neeed to get that on

and the readme for pywallt does mention deump wallet to json so the keyy should be inthere you'd thing

Install this : http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.7/#download as osx's python is usually old (unless you're running lion though) for the BSDBB.


run::

pywallet.py --dumpwallet --datadir=(location)

OK. Easy way, or not. First check if you have curl installed.
Open a Terminal and type curl and see if it gives you a positive answer. If you don't have the curl libraries maybe it's best to continue with pywallet ;)

If you have curl, maybe you want to try this, instead of installing more stuff. Even if you don't have curl and won't use it, maybe it will be useful to someone else ;D

Open your bitcoin.conf file and put this inside

replace <username> and <password> with a username and password of your choice, ofcourse.

Start Bitcoin-qt in the normal way and it will start as a server.

Open a Terminal and type

replace <username> with the username you set on the bitcoin.conf file and <address> with the address for which you want to get the private key

Press enter. It will prompt you for the password you set on the bitcoin.conf file. Write it and press enter.
Voilá, it will answer with the private key for the address.

Repeat the Terminal steps for each address.

i used to love using a fresh rebilt os,. now it can't fine MAKE

I have xcode 4.3.3 instralled, what gives?  i can't find in anywhere in that package

Why are you using xcode? You don't need to compile anything as far as I know...

it'sthe error i get after the first lie in your post

How you installed MacPorts? http://www.macports.org/

MacPorts-2.1.1-10.7-Lion.pkg maybe i need a reboot


or just some skill
lol

Try rebooting, but do you have bootcamp or any other OS installed? Type python in Terminal and post the results, which version on earth are you running?

Have you tried the -rescan parameter? Try this with the old wallets in (the one with the 20 addresses that contain the coins.)

it was missing the command line options form xcode, seems to be running through the install now

Whew, that's a good thing to hear.  :D

right, it's exported a buntload of json, which is good i suppose


so, no i just make a new wallet, and add these to it using the variables from the file?

Great, go make an account at http://blockchain.info/wallet , login and go to the import/export tab.

Paste the JSON in the 'Import Wallet' tab. Afterwards, send the balance to your new wallet address.

maybe it's the other wallet.dat then

it imported, there was one red box which flashed up, then two toher green ones, but no coins ,


does it need to get verified by the network or soemthing firdt?

No, it should show up almost instantly (after the live status turns to "SUBSCRIBED TO WALLET" )
What does the red boxes and the green boxes say? Are you sure the wallet.dat is correct? You might have loaded your new wallet.dat(without the coins in). Try running with:


Replace DATADIR with the location of your OLD wallet that contains the coins.

If you're sure it's the correct wallet, try importing the keys one by one.
The privatekeys are (bolded):
 "sec": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxjxFRxc4z8V6Vybhzckmycj9aSb4sify"

Copy them, and paste them in the Import private key in blockchain.info. Select "Sipa wallet import format", and try importing them one by one.

still no dice with the full json import.  Should it not be populating the addresses as it imports casue all i have is the default one you get when you set the wallet uo

the red message comes and goes so fast it's imposible to read

i;ll try the manual import amd see what happens

well not quite sure what happened

added a fw just raw addresses to the address book but nothing, as expected cause there was no private key
added one with the private key, no money appeared still, so i trhought ;d fire up my local client to see if there was any transaction today and all of the coins wwere there


so, thanks to you both, i can see you both have addresses in youtr signatures so expect 2BTC from me presently.  You really helped a n0b out today, i thought they were done for

Well, not sure what happened there, but I'm glad you got your coins back. ;)
Even if we didn't gave you a solution to your problem, maybe this thread will help someone else, so, not everything was lost.

The bitcoin client can be queer sometimes. Just glad that nothing were lost though.  :D

it was something in the registration of a private key and address that kicked it all off.  as soon as i'd done that, a rescan of the blockchain added about 18 hours worth or transactions, but all m transactions were included there also.  however, i started the fog process 48 hours ago at least tso who knows

anyway, enjoy your coins boys, you've earned them

Got the coins, thanks again!  ;D

Also woke up to the sound of the coins arriving at my wallet ;D

Thanks a lot!