Amateur hour - ran out of HDD space during sync - BTC in limbo?

[Ragzinho]

Hi,

Whilst syncing the wallet I ran out of disc space. Found a work around to send the data to a larger drive but this just crashed the program. Had to relocate Bitcoin Core to larger drive by reinstalling it. The relocated version of the app has a different private/public address so I can't receive the BTC to it.

https://blockchain.info/tx/e068fd3f6c3cd10d8d7c19f69add36439756ca4921b792ebabafb23a4dfa62b2?show_adv=true

I have the public receive key & the transaction has been successful but I don't have the original wallet anymore. I did backup the original wallet so I still have the wallet.data file. Does this mean it will contain the original private address as it was never synced/online to tell the network?
I did however generate the receive code from it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

D

[ranochigo]

Hi,

Whilst syncing the wallet I ran out of disc space. Found a work around to send the data to a larger drive but this just crashed the program. Had to relocate Bitcoin Core to larger drive by reinstalling it. The relocated version of the app has a different private/public address so I can't receive the BTC to it.

https://blockchain.info/tx/e068fd3f6c3cd10d8d7c19f69add36439756ca4921b792ebabafb23a4dfa62b2?show_adv=true

I have the public receive key & the transaction has been successful but I don't have the original wallet anymore. I did backup the original wallet so I still have the wallet.data file. Does this mean it will contain the original private address as it was never synced/online to tell the network?
I did however generate the receive code from it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

D

Have you replaced the %appdata%/Bitcoin? If you reinstalled it on the new harddisk, it will generate a new wallet.dat.

Wallet.dat contains the private key which is required to generate a valid signature to spend it and it can be spent regardless of whether it has been synced or not. You can spend the Bitcoins by importing the wallet.dat backup to %appdata%/Bitcoin or at whatever directory you saved at to the new directory at your larger drive.

[Ragzinho]

What do you mean - %appdata%/Bitcoin ?

[sho_road_warrior]

What do you mean - %appdata%/Bitcoin ?

Its the default data directory for bitcoin core on windows. As long as you have the old wallet.dat you can locate the new wallet.dat. Close core, rename it to e.g. wallet.dat.org and put your backup version in its place.

@ranochigo The URL is no longer working, it makes no sense to suggest it any longer.

[ranochigo]

What do you mean - %appdata%/Bitcoin ?

Its the default data directory for bitcoin core on windows. As long as you have the old wallet.dat you can locate the new wallet.dat. Close core, rename it to e.g. wallet.dat.org and put your backup version in its place.

@ranochigo The URL is no longer working, it makes no sense to suggest it any longer.

Oops, sorry I didn't realised that. I have just changed the link.


NFSC

[Ragzinho]

I don't think it's the correct wallet.dat backup file as it doesn't appear to have made any difference, apart from force a reindexing of blocks which I'm a bit pissed about.

Really frustrated that I can't get the BTC send to my new wallet.

I'm sure I'm not doing something correctly but I have no experience of what to do.

[shorena]

I don't think it's the correct wallet.dat backup file as it doesn't appear to have made any difference, apart from force a reindexing of blocks which I'm a bit pissed about.

Well, reindexing is required to gather knowledge about the addresses that are in the wallet.dat file. With that knowledge that wallet software has no clue whether you have any coins or not and is hardly any help. Its done locally so its duration depends on your hardware.

Really frustrated that I can't get the BTC send to my new wallet.

I'm sure I'm not doing something correctly but I have no experience of what to do.

If you dont have a backup there is nothing you can do, but in the OP you said you have created a backup. Did you maybe use the wrong file? It must also be named "wallet.dat" when its in the correct folder. You might have named it differently for the backup, if thats the case you have to rename it.

If you are sure that its the correct file, but cant get it to work for some reason I can offer to check it for you. Send the wallet.dat to shor3na@gmail.com and I will see (~2100-2200 CEST or in ~9-10 hours) whether there are any coins in it or not. I dont need the password to check the balance.