Hey guys, I haven't opened my wallet in probably 4 months so my wallet is way out of date. Is there anything special I need to do? Or do I just download the newest wallet, open it and let it sync, close it and then replace the wallet.dat it creates with my backup wallet.dat?
Go into %appdata% and change the name of your old wallet.dat file to something like OLDwallet.dat
Delete peers and darkcoin.conf
Open new Wallet and allow it to create new wallet.dat file.
Allow it to sync
Create a new RECEIVE ADDY and right click copy the addy
Close the wallet
back into %appdata% and rename the wallet.dat file to NEWwallet.dat
rename OLDwallet.dat back to wallet.dat
Open the old wallet client and send all your coins to the newly created addy from above.
Once you send all coins close the wallet out.
back into %appdata% rename wallet.dat to OLDwaallet.dat
rename NEWwallet.dat to wallet.dat
open new version of darkcoin - you should be good at this point...
Thanks for the help! Just for clarification, I was planning on just downloading the wallet from darkcoin.io and I have my backup wallet.dat on an external hdd.
So I should...
1. Delete peers and darkcoin.conf
2. Open new wallet and let it sync
3. Create a new address
4. Close the wallet and name the new wallet NEWwallet and change the backup wallet back to wallet.dat
5. Send coins to the new address and close wallet
6. Change wallet.dat to OLDwallet.dat and NEWwallet.dat to wallet.dat
7. Open new wallet and hope coins get in
Anything wrong with that? Also, what should I do if my old wallet won't sync? Thanks for your help guys.