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tkbx (OP)
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March 16, 2013, 12:39:46 AM
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I sent bitcoins to one of my addresses earlier. According to blockchain.info, it's got a positive balance and my one transaction with almost 90 confirmations. When I load that wallet in Bitcoin-Qt, it shows a balance of 0.00, fully synced. Under transactions, it shows no transactions. Why is this happening?

EDIT: To clarify, I partially followed this guide: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet

I went offline, generated my new wallet, quit Bitcoin-Qt, encrypted the wallet.dat with a third party AES program, and srm'd the original wallet.dat. I know it's not as secure, but for the small amount of funds I planned to have in it, the extra steps weren't worth it. I unencrypted it and got my wallet.dat file, quit Bitcoin-qt, and loaded the wallet, and now I'm here.
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March 16, 2013, 12:57:40 AM
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Solution: start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag.
How to do it depends on your OS, but you didn't say which one you're using.
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March 16, 2013, 01:10:26 AM
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Solution: start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag.
How to do it depends on your OS, but you didn't say which one you're using.
I'm using OSX, it's inconvenient, but doable.

Takes a while to rescan, huh? Not done yet, but that's got to be it (EDIT: done, worked perfectly). Thanks for the help.
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March 16, 2013, 01:37:12 AM
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Solution: start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag.
How to do it depends on your OS, but you didn't say which one you're using.
I'm using OSX, it's inconvenient, but doable.

Takes a while to rescan, huh? Not done yet, but that's got to be it (EDIT: done, worked perfectly). Thanks for the help.

I'm not exactly sure of it, but I could almost swear inserting rescan=1 in the bitcoin.conf file and starting bitcoin-qt normally would also work.
Must try it. That way I'll be sure and won't forget about it again.
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March 16, 2013, 02:03:55 AM
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Solution: start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag.
How to do it depends on your OS, but you didn't say which one you're using.
I'm using OSX, it's inconvenient, but doable.

Takes a while to rescan, huh? Not done yet, but that's got to be it (EDIT: done, worked perfectly). Thanks for the help.

I'm not exactly sure of it, but I could almost swear inserting rescan=1 in the bitcoin.conf file and starting bitcoin-qt normally would also work.
Must try it. That way I'll be sure and won't forget about it again.
It seems the easiest way on OSX is:
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/path/to/Bitcoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitcoin-Qt --args
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