Hmm.. why the  heck would they want to do that?

default behavior is that it to the tray and not the taskbar,  could you be minimizing it and not knowing to look for it in the tray?

Check the options and see if you have that set and unset that.  Rebooting, as you said you did should fix that though.    Can you try and run the command line devcoind instead?  It should at least output the error message.  Alternatively, look in %APPDATA%\Devcoin, and see what the last lines of debug.log are.

Here is my update with the rc1.  It took over 24 hours to reindex  the first run.  Since then it has not had to reindex, so much better, however it is still slow as molasses downloading the new blocks compared to older versions.

Does anyone know of a devcoin block explorer that shows blocksizes?

See http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=972 for why I want to check on this.

To back up the wallet, you need to stop devcoin and copy the wallet.dat file.

Rather then join in on the noble members that are donating to replace the lost coins I am going to do something else.  I think it we added the backup option to the gui this would not have happened.... so..


I am going to go a different way with this. Rather than helping to restore the lost funds I am going to offer a bounty to help make sure he and others do not try and backup their wallet that way again.   

I am offering a bounty of 75000 DVC for someone to bring out the backup wallet functionality to the GUI.  In addition I am offering another 75000 DVC if you also add sign/verify message to the GUI.   

One condition is that you pm me first, so I can know someone is working on it.  I can also send you some pointers that may help you along as well.

You are on windows though right?   On windows and mac, the 64 bit OS also includes all the rtl support for running 32 bit programs just fine.  This is not the case with Linux.  This is why you see build for both with linux, but you don't need them for Windows.   The only coin right now that an end user may need a 64 bit build for is i0coin.       So 32/64 bit is not the issue.

However,   the seed nodes are gone that are in the ixcoin builds, so you are probably gong to need to find a node to addnode to bootstrap with.

Yeah,  https://www.box.com/s/cv35rbugsvvz1lbi1iw4 for NMC builds.   However, it is currently like the devcoin build, and no icon to make it into an app.  So you have to run the namecoin file.   Unlike devcoin, where marticps helped out by supplying me some graphics, no one has given me the graphics files to use with nmc as of yet, so I have no idea when I will be changing that for nmc.

Where does one get a tipjar?

I saw you looking for ixcoin earlier as well, did you find that and my namecoin builds yet?

Actually if you found https://www.box.com/s/ntna8dibxek351s42fxu , it has both the daemon and a gui version.  However the gui version is not packaged up into an App format yet.  That is next on the list,  just was waiting for a reason to need to do new builds.  However,  if you go to where you unpacked it and run the file devcoin instead of devcoind you should get a gui version popping up.

Hey, I need two cables.    I need a 2.5" or so good quality USB extender cable (good quality as it will be drawing power).  I also could use a 1.5" foot or so ethernet cable.  Can you supply these?

cut is a deleting operation


I would guess you did not actually close devcoin, but minimized it to the tray.  So locked files did not get copied over. When you ran it off of G it could not find a wallet.dat and so made a new one.


copy is not a combining operation, at this point the filesystem replaced your c wallet.dat with the one you just told it to copy from G that was newly made it seems.
 

you did both an attempted delete with the cut, and you overwrote any existing wallet.dat left if that failed when you copied back from G.  So yeah, you did delete and overwrite things.   At this point you should have turned off the computer and not let anything else be written to the drives.   Now, you would take them out and run a program that searched for bdb patterns and key patterns, in the hope that at the raw sector level the data was left, and it reallocated things.   If not and it is a magnetic drive you have a slim chance a consumer grade data recovery place can get to it, very slim.     If is is ssd there are some other tricks to try, but also pretty expensive to have done.

I think you may have wiped out your file past your abilities to recover it if I read what you did accurately.

I spent some time in April trying to improve the new user startup experience.   I put the builds up the start of this month, and they have had a few hundred downloads, and I have not had any issues reported yet.      https://www.box.com/s/1mqfk22gyqq97ytdmifi

Want to sell one of them then?

Ah, nice.     The waiting ... hopefully we all get a working unit soon.     It has recently gotten too hot for me to mine at all on my laptop.  I am working some on the namecoin software, and need to mine it's testnet.    So have gotten more anxious to get mine unless it gets cooler soon.   

BTW, anyone willing to help me test my namecoin changes by pointing some hashes at me, let me know.


Also, anyone know a good source of decent usb extender cables?

Hence the 'or generate lots of orphans' which is what happens if you hold difficulty too low.

Problem is, if enough actually mine it, it will either no longer be easy to mine, or generate lots of orphans.


I actually have a coin concept ready to go similar to this,but with a better name.   Just does not seem a good time to be launching coins at all.


Well bitcoin is pretty hard to mine these days.

Depending on the type of stock board, you are talking about a whole different dynamic.   You may be following the ticker in real time and that changes things.    Lots of people post here, however we are not standing by waiting to reply to posts typically.  We are usually busy working on something, maybe some code, and come to the message board when we need a bit of a break.   You style is also hard to answer to.  You post a lot of statements of facts rather then questions, and if your facts are not correct, it would become a real chore to go all the way back and to the start and try and meaningfully reply, especially when you see a bunch of follow ups already.  So you are making it too hard to reply meaningfully to your posts.


How long are you giving for replies before you continue on anyway?   Are you actually leaving hooks and questions in for people to reply to?


Maybe you would do better in a chat room if you want more immediate interaction.




Most, maybe all of us are doing this part time,  I noticed before you talked about the devcoin company, and it's profits, debts  and plans. There is no company.  It is more like a Coalition with most of us working on many other things as well.  Oh, another thing I noticed you did, you were putting too much emphasis on peoples titles.  All they mean is you post a lot or not.  You also kept calling for the mods to help you, there are really no mods active in this thread for the most part.  Think I have seen one.  We are all just fellow users of the board like you are.  You are attributing too much formality and structure to things it seems like.


There you go,  devtome is definitely separate then this forum.  another idea would be to start some of your own threads. I know I just skip to the last page of posts on here when I am taking a break so  for sure  am now missing a lot of posts here these days.  In any case my suggestion is to learn to be a bit more patient in waiting for replies. Many just check in once a day or even less often.

Oh, these will be first at least in what I am working on.  Really for no other reason then they came first, so they will be easy to work into the code as I work up the timeline.   At the moment though I just got done putting in some fixes for the coinbase.   Now I have no real way to test these.  So,  is anyone running testnet these days for namecoin?  Anyone up to helping to test? Or anyone have a networked connected box/vps I can use to run it on the testnet?

If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, it has nothing to do with old-devcoin-qt, but rather old-devcoin

For what OS?  Command line or gui?

Assuming the common windows/gui answer ->   https://www.box.com/s/lha022iv9pq8hb64sh21