How to transfer private addresses from one wallet to another?

[pornluver]

My wallet has 3 addresses. My other wallet has 5 addresses. I just want to synchronize those.

How would I do so?

[Dabs]

What wallets are we talking about? Please name the software you are using.

[pornluver]

Bitcoinqt

Also I wonder if the money belong to the wallet or the addresses in the wallet. I do not know which address own money in bitcoins.

It looks like as long as one private key is shared among 2 wallets the amount of money on those 2 wallets are the same. Is that so?

[jackjack]

It looks like as long as one private key is shared among 2 wallets the amount of money on those 2 wallets are the same. Is that so?

No
You have on amount of money per address
The overall amount of money in a wallet is the sum of amounts from its addresses


To import keys you have dumpprivkey and importprivkey in rpc

[drawingthesun]

Bitcoinqt

Also I wonder if the money belong to the wallet or the addresses in the wallet. I do not know which address own money in bitcoins.

It looks like as long as one private key is shared among 2 wallets the amount of money on those 2 wallets are the same. Is that so?

When messing around with private keys be-careful that they contain your coins (check http://blockchain.info/)

The clients stores change from transactions in addresses that are no visible and lots of people that mess around with moving addresses around lose all their coins.

The recommended thing to do is make a new address and send them to that wallet. If you do move a address use blockchain.info to make sure it actually has coins in it.

[drawingthesun]

The overall amount of money in a wallet is the sum of amounts from its addresses

Just be aware of the invisible change addresses!!!

I have tested this, you can check every single address in your wallet that you can see and have a look on http://blockchain.info/ to see the coins. I was many coins short because of the invisible change addresses. So If I exported my visible addresses and made paper wallets whilst deleting the client wallet I would have lost everything. Double check actual balances of each addresses, this is very important. The client does not tell you the amounts of coins in individual addresses and it hides the change addresses. Don't forget!

[pornluver]

I see. In bitcoinqt they don't really tell how much money I have in each address. They just tell total. ALso if I send money, they don't tell me from which address the money is from. Just what's in it total.

[drawingthesun]

I see. In bitcoinqt they don't really tell how much money I have in each address. They just tell total. ALso if I send money, they don't tell me from which address the money is from. Just what's in it total.

Go to http://blockchain.info/ and type yoour public address into the search bar, that will tell you how many coins you have.

The best way to transfer coins at the moment is to send them over the network, so send from one wallet to another. That is the safest way. Also having the same wallet or address on several computers has been warned against. I stick to best practices myself, 1 unique wallet per computer and send coins to the wallet that I want the coins to be in. I have never tried to import export keys. If you do just check that they actually have your coins!

Good luck!

[Dabs]

There are coin control versions of the bitcoin-qt client. You will see everything there.

But to keep things simple, you just send ALL your coins to either one of your own addresses, therefore consolidating all unspent outputs, or you send it to a brand new wallet with a brand new address, preferably one that has been encrypted immediately after creation.