Moving Bitcoinqt between computers

[Lina.V]

I'm trying to move my Bitcoinqt wallet from my windows computer to my Linux machine. I really don't want to go through the hassle of redownloading the blockchain. I thought I'd just transfer the files between computers. I've been playing around with it but so far no luck.

Does anyone know exactly which files need to be moved?

Thanks!

[spin]

I'm not sure which files need to be moved, but you could run both on the same network and let them sync against each other.  On the new PC add -connect=[ip of old pc] to the command-line/config and run both until the new PC is synced up.   The -connect tells it to only connect to your old pc.  Once it is done you can remove the -connect parameter. Then remove bitcoin from the old pc.  Backing up and copy your your wallets of course.

[Lina.V]

I ended up just re-downloading the blockchain, ugh.

But thanks for the response, I hadn't thought of that idea!

[spin]

Yes this would have saved you bandwidth and time as it only uses your local network.

[cp1]

Copy the %Appdata% bitcoin folder from windows to your .bitcoin linux folder.