OK.  It sounds like my Ledger Wallet coins are safe (https://blog.ledger.co/securing-your-free-bitcoin-cash-stash-d50aff765688).

From what I've been told, so long as you have your BTC private keys you'll get a balance on both chains.  So no need to transfer to an exchange it sounds.

So I've read the Bitfinex post on this (https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/212) and it does seem to suggest your Bitcoins are safe on their exchange and you'll get 'free' Bitcoin Cash as well?  Am I understanding that correctly?

So if I have 1 BTC on their exchange I'll get (about) 1 BCH (whatever a BCH is going to be worth once created after the fork)?

Kraken is also supporting the new Bitcoin Cash (http://blog.kraken.com/post/1150/bitcoin-cash-and-a-critical-alert-for-bitcoin-margin-traders/).

So are you effectively getting free coins (if you are willing to take the risk of putting your coin on an exchange during a fork)?

Even some exchanges are using the BCC ticker name but the new BCH name seems to be the better choice.

I'm sure they'll change it but BCC does seem to be the ticker news sites are using.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken but isn't the potential new Bitcoin Cash currency have the same ticker as BitConnect, i.e. BCC?

Boom!  Yeah you're right.  Stuck in the mud now.  Wow, I wish there was a better system for this. :-)

No worries, thanks for replying.

I have Core already installed and replaced the wallet.dat file with mine backup.  I've rescanned and it's now downloading 5+ years.  Seems to be going fairly quick.

I have a backup of a wallet.dat file I created and used about a year ago.  I'm struggling to find a client which allows me to import the wallet as I've since got a new computer.  Is it not as simple as finding a client and importing.  I would like to use the bitcoins to pay for something.