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Title: Did I mess up badly? Post by: trobernojeff on April 08, 2013, 11:51:42 PM Hi everybody! newest of all newbies here, with a situation, until last week i: 1. kept my BTC in my Bitcoin-QT wallet 2. had encrypted that wallet 3. made a back-up, and renamed the file. Than i my mac crashed fully. (lion to mountain lion update fail). Totally corrupt filevault-encrypted HDD, no major backups, so I reinstalled OSX. Now all I have is backup file of the encrypted wallet.dat. (password i have) Is this enough to recover my BTC?? If anybody could help me with a diagnosis, this patient would be happy (or not..... :o :o :o) Thanks! Title: Re: Did I mess up badly? Post by: liberty90 on April 08, 2013, 11:56:07 PM Now all I have is backup file of the encrypted wallet.dat. (password i have) Is this enough to recover my BTC?? Yes, if you have your wallet, everything should be okay. Title: Re: Did I mess up badly? Post by: trobernojeff on April 09, 2013, 12:09:45 AM Hello thanks for your fast reply liberty- Do you mean the Bitcoin QT wallet? I downloaded a new one, since the old one was on the crashed HDD... Title: Re: Did I mess up badly? Post by: trobernojeff on April 09, 2013, 12:12:07 AM 2/2: ANd I basically also have no idea how to open the back up. ??? Title: Re: Did I mess up badly? Post by: christop on April 09, 2013, 12:23:54 AM Hello thanks for your fast reply liberty- Do you mean the Bitcoin QT wallet? I downloaded a new one, since the old one was on the crashed HDD... Title: Re: Did I mess up badly? Post by: WishIStartedSooner on April 09, 2013, 12:27:11 AM your fine.
the new wallet program u downloaded made a new wallet.dat somewhere on your hard drive. find that and replace it with your old one. Title: Re: Did I mess up badly? Post by: liberty90 on April 09, 2013, 12:41:07 AM find that and replace it with your old one. Exactly. |