Tried to do a BCC transaction ended in a BTC transaction

[reddon]

Hi,

i got a little mess here, i don't understand.

I have a local BTC wallet. Which holds coins from pre-fork times.

So i tried to got my BCC amount sent to a wallet on bitfinex. So i used my local wallet with the BitcoinABC client to access the BCCs.

But that ended up in sending my BTCs to this address. The address indeed exists as BTC as well, so the transaction was successful. But i don't even have access to this BTC wallet (only the BCC wallet).

Why did the BitcoinABC client sent my BTCs (which are much higher in value...)? It says BCC everywhere. I was not even aware, that Bitcoin ABC is capable of performing BTC transactions. What did i do wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[ScripterRon]

Your wallet must have connected to a BTC node.  The transaction signing algorithm is different for BitcoinABC, so a transaction signed by a BTC wallet would be rejected by a BitcoinABC node (and vice versa).  This is the replay protection implemented by BitcoinABC.

[reddon]

Hm, ok, thanks for the reply. But that raises some additional questions:

But how do i connect my wallet to the BCC network?
How do i transfer the pre-fork BCCs in my wallet?
Why does BitcoinABC say it transferred BCCs but in fact transferred BTCs?

[reddon]

Bitfinix is so kind to recover my BTCs.

But i still don't understand why that happened.
And moreover: I still have BCCs in this wallet and i have no clue how to connect this wallet to the BCC network and transfer the coins...