Bitcoin QT-Wallet too big

[macianovdl1979]

Hi,

I have a dual problem.

1) A few weeks back, my girlfriend unplugged my PC while it was synching to BC. After that, something went wrong and I had to re-download the BC to my wa0llet from scratch.

Which leads me to:

2) I've been trying to download the BC again, but there's not enough disk space.

How to fix this?

Simply sending BTC is impossible, because the confirmations stop at 46 weeks until today or so and most of my BTC has been send to the wallet afterwards.

Help is very much appreciated!

[Elastic]

Dont bother with the QT go on blockchain.info or use electrum/armory/

[truehold3r]

Maybe his problem is that he has a wallet.dat of bitcoin-qt and doesn't know if it's possible to import it to blockchain or armory or electrum.

[macianovdl1979]

That's exactly my problem.

My last wallet.dat backup is from 4 months ago.

It might be a silly newbee question, but I rly just don't know. Any link to a YT vid demo or something?

[DannyHamilton]

It sounds like you don't have the necessary resources to be running Bitcoin Core.

You should look into either using a hybrid wallet such as blockchain.info or installing a lightweight wallet such as MultiBit or Electrum.

You can import your wallet.dat file into a new blockchain.info wallet to be able to immediately send the bitcoins to whatever wallet you choose.

That's exactly my problem.

My last wallet.dat backup is from 4 months ago.

It might be a silly newbee question, but I rly just don't know. Any link to a YT vid demo or something?

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

[macianovdl1979]

Thnx, I'll try that.

[amacar]

You can change location of blockchain to external disc.
Here is instructions to change location: http://www.btcpedia.com/change-bitcoin-qt-blockchain-location/

[minerpumpkin]

Huh, interesting. You could go and dump the private keys to your addresses and import them in some other light-weight-wallet. They only need seconds to sync (since they don't download the whole blockchain). You could also try and download a complete recent version of the blockchain from somewhere. How much GB does the current sync occupy on your disk?

[Nagato4]

Easiest way is to upload the wallet.dat file directly to blockchain.info on https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet.

If you don't trust blockchain.info, you can use the command "listunspent" to get a list of addresses having positive balance and use "dumpprivkey" to show the private key of those addresses (need to decrypt your wallet file with "walletpassphrase" if you have set a pass phrase).