electrum to another client

[neotenie]

Hi dear people,
there is something I'm a bit confused about.


1-If you have a client on one computer and download another client. Will the wallet.dat be recognized or replaced?
In other words:
---> what happened if you have 2 different btc clients on one computer?
---> Can you have 2 wallets on one computer?

2-If you use electrum as a client (not using wallet.dat but electrum.dat) and install another client can, what happened?
---> Can you open the electrum wallet in the new client
---> Are you creating another wallet?

I guess I'm missing some simple stuff, but I don't know exactly what!

Thank you very much for helping me to get some clarity about these questions!

Neo

[bstatic]

The wallets are located at different locations on your computer.

For Electrum, the wallet is located here:

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Electrum


For Bitcoin-Qt, the wallet is located here:

C:\Users\YourUserName\Appdata\Roaming\Bitcoin


So you can run both clients on your computer at the same time without problems.

Each client (e.g. Electrum) creates their own wallet and each wallet has their own address. You can send money between the wallets by sending the money to an address in the other wallet. You can also import the wallet from one client into another to combine the wallets.

If you want to, you can import the wallet from Electrum into Bitcoin-Qt, just see this link.

You can do the same with any other client. If you want to move the wallet to another client, you need to "export" or "dump" the private key which is what you want to import into another client. Every wallet should have a "import wallet" or "import private key" function, just look at their help or wiki page.

[neotenie]

Thank you bstatic, I got it