Help Regarding MultiBit !
1-> I am having problem due to some reason my wallet got corrupted and i saved my wallet in 3 places pen drive , hard disk and CD . Week back i have received few btc but i forget to make backup on other drives
and yesterday when i open my wallet it showing me 0 BTC in my wallet i open my hard disk wallet its working but its not showing the amount which i received week back
Please help me out how can i get my BTC back which i have received week back !
2-> yesterday i have generated new BTC address and given to my buyer the wallet was in hard disk and after generating new BTC address i have removed my hard disk and in the morning when my buyer said BTC send i checked my wallet there is nothing. On blockchain transaction was done ! but i didn't received anything
even the BTC address which i have generated not showing in my multibit
Please friends help me out i am in bad situation !!
Regards'
PTseller
Hello PTSeller,
Good that you have multiple backups of your wallet. You have to be a little careful copying wallets around for a couple of reasons (similar to bitcoin-qt really).
1) when MultiBit is synchronising, it downloads the blocks and checks with all the open wallets if a payment needs to go into any of the wallets. It then adds it. If you have a wallet not open (ie a backup) it will not see this. This is the cause of your first problem.
You can do a 'Reset blockchain and transactions' to make MultiBit replay the blocks. I normally do it from the date of the last transaction in that wallet. (this wallet catch up really should be automatic - it is on my TODO list)
edit: I think you are in india so use the DAY BEFORE the transaction date just to avoid any time zone problems.
2) on your second point I would be careful removing and adding hard disks / USB drives. MultiBit writes to the wallet quite often (as data comes in). If you dismount a drive it has nowhere to write to. Also, backups are written to the same directory as the wallet (but with the date in the name). If you remove the drive it cannot write these. I do not recommend dismounting drives whilst MultiBit is running. Shut MultiBit down first so that it writes everything out to the wallets and shuts down cleanly. Then copy the wallets.
Anyhow, have a look in your wallet directory for files called 'your wallet'-'a date in format yyyymmddhhmmss'. These are the backup wallet files.
To be on the safe side, take a copy of them and then open them in MultiBit to see if they have your new address you created in.
edit: if you find the wallet where it saved the new address, use this wallet as your 'primary' wallet. You will probably have to do a 'Reset blockchain and transactions' from a date before when you were sent the BTC to get the transaction to appear.
Regards
Jim
done all whatever you said mate but nothing happen i have checked backup wallet files also
also i have 'Reset blockchain and transactions' back date nothing happen i get this error
Error in below bar -> The new wallet "H:\wallet\multibit.wallet" could not be created. The error was "Could not write walletinfo file for wallet 'H:\wallet\multibit.info'".
please mate help me out !
story from start !
I have open my multibit 2 days back but there is no BTC in my multibit i check my wallet in Drive and mount it again but nothing then i went to Hard disk i mount that wallet and got BTC but weeks back transaction BTC was not there
i was shocked and then 1 days back my buyer want to send BTC to me i have mount my hard disk wallet again and created new BTC address for BTC payment and i have given to him new address and then i plugged out my hard disk and done my pc hibernate ! and when i get confirmation from buyer btc send i checked my MultiBit there is no transaction and also the BTC address which i have created
i am really in bad situation ! please help me out
My multibit Version is -> 0.4.2
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