Wallet Q, from a newbie

[maJes--ty]

Hi, I'm relatively new to this, and -- after a few days of getting lost, dazed and confused -- finally managed to download a wallet, the Electrum wallet. I then transferred some of my bitcoins from the online exchange to my wallet.

My wallet is in my MacBook doc, but I also put a copy of the wallet on my external hard drive (cold storage).

Question .... Is it safe for me to simply delete the wallet in my MacBook doc. I assume it is, but since I'm so green and tech-phobic, I just want to make sure.[/font] [/b][/i]

Thanks, maJesty

[felco]

Yes. You don't need to ran the Wallet to receive bitcoins, only if you need to send it.
I would test the backup before deleting tough.

[DannyHamilton]

Electrum should provide you with a set of "seed words" that it can use to rebuild your entire wallet.  As long as you have those seed words securely stored somewhere, you should be ok.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

For me for safety not only seed need to backup both seeds private key if what wallet address i used and wallet.dat
And save in the folder or make it rar with encrypted password and save in drive d or external drive it would be safe for a long time just make a 2 copy for drive d of your computer and external drive.