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Title: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 05, 2013, 07:21:19 PM can't find it in my bitcoin-qt directory... !
Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: PsychoticBoy on April 05, 2013, 07:22:44 PM It is in your Roaming folder.
Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 05, 2013, 07:24:43 PM Roaming, huh? What's a roaming folder do?
Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: charliemaggot on April 05, 2013, 07:28:19 PM For Win 7/8:
\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\bitcoin or Win XP/2003 \Documents and Settings\<username>\AppData\Roaming\bitcoin or unix ~/.bitcoin or Mac ~/Library/Application Support/bitcoin Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: maxmint on April 05, 2013, 07:30:25 PM On a Mac:
Mac HD/Users/[yourusername]/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/wallet.dat Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: Luckybit on April 05, 2013, 07:30:57 PM Is it encrypted by default?
How do you import a new wallet? Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: maxmint on April 05, 2013, 07:31:59 PM Is it encrypted by default? NoHow do you import a new wallet? You just copy the new wallet.dat to the right location (see above).Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 05, 2013, 07:41:54 PM Do you have to copy wallet.dat, or can you go File >> Backup Wallet ?
Same thing? Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 05, 2013, 07:50:43 PM Seems like the same thing, just checked both wallet and backup.dat (i named it backup) and they are the exact same file.
just because i'm OCD can i get a confirmation on this? :P Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 05, 2013, 11:12:30 PM bump
Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: MashRinx on April 05, 2013, 11:45:53 PM You can do either. The Backup Wallet command is doing just that, backing up the wallet file. Copying the wallet.dat file manually should do the same thing. You can test/confirm by closing down the Bitcoint-QT client, renaming wallet.dat to wallet_old.dat (or whatever you want) and rename backup.dat to wallet.dat. Bitcoin should start and should look the same since they are copies the same wallet. This confirms the two files are the same.
Are these encrypted? Just my suggestion, but you don't want unecrypted copies just lying around. Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 05, 2013, 11:46:36 PM i have a password on it o.o;
Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: MashRinx on April 05, 2013, 11:49:57 PM Also, if interested... I have an SSD as my main hard drive, and I don't want to Bitcoin client and data files on that drive, since it's 7.5 gigs+ now. If you want to tell the client to look for all of the bitcoin data files somewhere other than the default location, you can copy all of those files somewhere else and then point the Bitcoin client shortcut to that new location.
Example - If you have your bitcoin data copied to a BitcoinData folder on a E-Drive (e:\BitcoinData), you can change the shortcut to: (assuming Windows, obviously) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=e:\BitcoinData Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: M3t on April 06, 2013, 12:03:11 AM I have everything on my ramdisk, like a boss.
Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: SeansinWiscottle on April 06, 2013, 01:23:00 AM Roaming, huh? What's a roaming folder do? a roaming folder is where buffalo files roam ::) Title: Re: WHere is wallet.dat stored? Post by: clicksmoney on April 06, 2013, 01:34:04 AM At MtGox? ;D
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