Need to upgrade old client

[B3dr0ck]

PC - 2GB Ram, 23+Gb free diskspace
Ubuntu 12.10

Client
Bitcoin-QT
V.0.8.3.0-g40809ae-beta

I need to upgrade the client, and have had no luck.  It is sync'd.

any suggestions? - I'll give tips to whoever moves this forward with me

[nemgun]

PC - 2GB Ram, 23+Gb free diskspace
Ubuntu 12.10

Client
Bitcoin-QT
V.0.8.3.0-g40809ae-beta

I need to upgrade the client, and have had no luck.  It is sync'd.

any suggestions? - I'll give tips to whoever moves this forward with me

backup wallet.dat, erase the blockchain and redownload bitcoin 13, run it using prune=50000 in bitcoin.conf
I hope it is what you are looking for.

[B3dr0ck]

PC - 2GB Ram, 23+Gb free diskspace
Ubuntu 12.10

Client
Bitcoin-QT
V.0.8.3.0-g40809ae-beta

I need to upgrade the client, and have had no luck.  It is sync'd.

any suggestions? - I'll give tips to whoever moves this forward with me

backup wallet.dat, erase the blockchain and redownload bitcoin 13, run it using prune=50000 in bitcoin.conf
I hope it is what you are looking for.

Would that require me to re-download the whole blockchain (120+ Gbs)?  I'm trying to avoid that.  If that's the case, I'd just setup a new computer and import the wallet.dat.

[nemgun]

PC - 2GB Ram, 23+Gb free diskspace
Ubuntu 12.10

Client
Bitcoin-QT
V.0.8.3.0-g40809ae-beta

I need to upgrade the client, and have had no luck.  It is sync'd.

any suggestions? - I'll give tips to whoever moves this forward with me

backup wallet.dat, erase the blockchain and redownload bitcoin 13, run it using prune=50000 in bitcoin.conf
I hope it is what you are looking for.

Would that require me to re-download the whole blockchain (120+ Gbs)?  I'm trying to avoid that.  If that's the case, I'd just setup a new computer and import the wallet.dat.

no, the solution i told you about will let you download the last 50k blocks instead of downloading the full blockchain, which is actually around 200GB.
Go to bitcoin.conf and add :

Code:

prune = x (where x is the number of last blocks you want to download)

This way, you won't have to think about blockchain size. I can only advise you to set an appropriate number of blocks, and avoid redeleting the blockchain after this because i don't know how the wallet will react if it finds a wallet with informations comming from old blocks not downloaded.
You can finde more options here : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

[AtomicProject]

just keel wallet.dat file in a usb and upgrade your system than replace old wallet.dat file to new wallet.dat file after installation of bitcoin core in new upgraded system

[B3dr0ck]

PC - 2GB Ram, 23+Gb free diskspace
Ubuntu 12.10

Client
Bitcoin-QT
V.0.8.3.0-g40809ae-beta

I need to upgrade the client, and have had no luck.  It is sync'd.

any suggestions? - I'll give tips to whoever moves this forward with me

backup wallet.dat, erase the blockchain and redownload bitcoin 13, run it using prune=50000 in bitcoin.conf
I hope it is what you are looking for.

Would that require me to re-download the whole blockchain (120+ Gbs)?  I'm trying to avoid that.  If that's the case, I'd just setup a new computer and import the wallet.dat.

no, the solution i told you about will let you download the last 50k blocks instead of downloading the full blockchain, which is actually around 200GB.
Go to bitcoin.conf and add :

Code:

prune = x (where x is the number of last blocks you want to download)

This way, you won't have to think about blockchain size. I can only advise you to set an appropriate number of blocks, and avoid redeleting the blockchain after this because i don't know how the wallet will react if it finds a wallet with informations comming from old blocks not downloaded.
You can finde more options here : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

I've got transactions in this wallets from years ago.  It syncs up now, but I don't think its on the correct chain or something.  I can't transact from it.  If there is risk here, I might be more inclined to just rebuild the wallet on a new computer - but I'd have to DL the whole chain again.
Is Bitcoin 13 the client for Ubuntu?

[nemgun]

You can try to figure the date and adjust the number of blocks according to the first transaction issued. You could save a lot of DiscSpace.
bitcoin 0.13.x is the latest bitcoin version, here is the download link provided by bitcointalk : https://bitcoin.org/en/download
If you want you can redownload the blockchain in a computer with more disk space, and then you can just send your wallet.dat to this new daemon/wallet, regardless if it is Mac, Win, Ubuntu, wallet.dat is an encrypted file, so it doesn't matter what OS is using it.

[calkob]

full blockchain, which is actually around 200GB.

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Actually it is currently 111GB 

[nemgun]

full blockchain, which is actually around 200GB.

Actually it is currently 111GB 
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Yes, my mistake sorry, i just checked it :

112G    .bitcoin

I said around 200gb because it asked me at a moment for 180gb, maybe it was including other blockchains, thanks for the corrections.