cheers.

problem solved. thank you very much.

thanks, bitpop and rosinpl.

 

ah right, i never realized i have to rename it wallet.dat. that is news to me. thanks. i will let the blockchain load again here, and report back.

i knew it was something simple, makes sense really.

and no, i am defo not an IT geek. go easy on me, bitpop. and many thanks. everyday is a learning day and all that.

much love, speak soon

hi guys thanks for the reply.

i found %appdata% - roaming etc. but im not sure how many, if any, .dat files to delete from this, before i drag in my backup file, and do a rescan.

i have tried a few methods, and every time i end up with the same result, all the .dat files have re-appeared, along with my backup file, and i have 0.00 btc/ltc.

my method is... close bitcoin/litecoin-qt, go to %appdata%, delete .dat files, drop backup.dat file in, and start with rescan.

thanks again. i hope you can put me right. Tim.

hi all. im new here. i've been wrecking my brain to try to restore my wallets with my backup.dat files for the past day or two. stumbled across this site and know you guys can help me.

i had to refresh my comp recently, and when i opened my wallet after this, it is now empty.

im using litecoinqt and bitcoinqt, and im on windows 8.

i have my wallets backed up. ive tried to follow this http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10974/import-wallet-dat-into-a-new-bitcoin-qt-client?lq=1 to no avail.

when i go to program files (x86) there is no bitcoin there. so in the folder that i use to open my wallet, i tried the right click method described in that link, but there is no option for "open command window here"

im sure it is something so simple im doing wrong. any help/advise would be great.