Wallet showing 0.00 BTC after transfering 10 BTC

[synchronize]

I made a new wallet by copying my existing wallet from users\user\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin wallet.dat to wallet-current.dat and then started the bitcoin client which made a new wallet. I took the address from the new wallet and copied it and then made a backup of the new wallet to wallet-new.dat and then copied wallet-current.dat to wallet.dat and transfered 10 BTC to the new wallet's address which is: 17EqDyqej2z6jN6osv1hJNvKPJAmni34T7

Here is the blockchain info:

http://blockchain.info/address/17EqDyqej2z6jN6osv1hJNvKPJAmni34T7

When I copy wallet-new.dat to wallet.dat the client shows 0.00 BTC. The client was left overnight and is still showing 0.00 BTC. In the receive coins this wallet has this address 17EqDyqej2z6jN6osv1hJNvKPJAmni34T7 so they were sent to the right place. Can anyone help me figure out where the coins have gone? I have the wallet file (encrypted) if you want to see for yourself the problem. Any help / ideas on this would be appreciated. I don't feel very good about bitcoin if I can't easily move coins to a new wallet without there being this kind of problem. I've done this before without a problem and have no idea why this would be happening. Please advise. If the wallet can show me my 10 BTC I will award 1 BTC for the help. Thanks.

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[dirtycat]

the coins are there.. try bitcoin-qt -rescan

[legolouman]

I read somewhere (I don't have a source, as usual) that using different wallet files can cause problems with the blockchain files. You could try re-downloading the blockchain with the correct wallet loaded.

[John (John K.)]

I made a new wallet by copying my existing wallet from users\user\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin wallet.dat to wallet-current.dat and then started the bitcoin client which made a new wallet. I took the address from the new wallet and copied it and then made a backup of the new wallet to wallet-new.dat and then copied wallet-current.dat to wallet.dat and transfered 10 BTC to the new wallet's address which is: 17EqDyqej2z6jN6osv1hJNvKPJAmni34T7

Here is the blockchain info:

http://blockchain.info/address/17EqDyqej2z6jN6osv1hJNvKPJAmni34T7

When I copy wallet-new.dat to wallet.dat the client shows 0.00 BTC. The client was left overnight and is still showing 0.00 BTC. In the receive coins this wallet has this address 17EqDyqej2z6jN6osv1hJNvKPJAmni34T7 so they were sent to the right place. Can anyone help me figure out where the coins have gone? I have the wallet file (encrypted) if you want to see for yourself the problem. Any help / ideas on this would be appreciated. I don't feel very good about bitcoin if I can't easily move coins to a new wallet without there being this kind of problem. I've done this before without a problem and have no idea why this would be happening. Please advise. If the wallet can show me my 10 BTC I will award 1 BTC for the help. Thanks.

Is the client fully updated with the blockchain? (the right hand corner should show a tick if it's so.)

[Dabs]

Yeah, you'd have to reload and do a rescan with the wallet. Stop the client. Copy the wallet. Start with a rescan.

Worst case scenario, copy the wallet to a freshly, newly installed client and let it redownload the block chain. If you can see it on blockchain.info then you're BTC are there.

[synchronize]

the coins are there.. try bitcoin-qt -rescan

I was able to solve the issue by getting help from #bitcoin-otc from nanotube who told me to do the rescan which worked. Donation sent to #bitcoin-otc on nanotube's request.

I had no idea how fast the response would be here so I think it is only fair to send at least a small token to you as well dirtycat because your solution was correct. Please send over an address and I'll send a few bucks your way.

Thanks everyone.

Cheers!