Where r my coins?

[schnuber]

Hello guys

Where the heck r my coins? Ok here is what I've done.

I have tried to make a secure wallet. So I booted my Laptop with a Unix Live distro. Then I installed the bitoin-ct client. I generated approximately 100 public keys and exported them in a csv file. I encrypted the wallet and then sent me the two files (.csv, .dat) to my own email address. I rebooted my computer and went for the Windows 7 OS. There I opened my existing wallet and made some tiny transfers (10mBTC each) on some of my formerly generated public keys which I looked up in the .csv file. On blockexplorer I assured  myself the transactions succeeded. They are (025d8482512d94a80d259becc3f7d3c4de4a673e311e61dc28aebf8dfd662946, 9be0efb94e27bd6ccad39dcc203a8917672db2422580385da2f5a320af0b5d23, 69b2d07ebba6927e58b99d28381024ef641c6e42ca6422e76a6853b870affae2).
Ok, so I wanted to verify the money has arrived on my new bitcoin wallet, so I simply closed the client, replaced the existing wallet.dat by the new encrypted one which I have sent me by mail and reopened the client and TADADADA... My coins are not there:)

Can anyone please tell what's going on.

Greets

[Joshster]

Upload the keys to a online wallet such as Armory.

[schnuber]

Upload the keys to a online wallet such as Armory.

And how should that bring back my coins?

[Joshster]

Well you should have your private keys to your coins in your back up. You may be switching the Wallet.dat file wrong.

[Deafboy]

I simply closed the client, replaced the existing wallet.dat by the new encrypted one

Was it also on Live CD? Was the blockchain synchronized?

[schnuber]

I simply closed the client, replaced the existing wallet.dat by the new encrypted one

Was it also on Live CD? Was the blockchain synchronized?

No this was on Win7 Blockchain is synchronized.

[schnuber]

Well you should have your private keys to your coins in your back up. You may be switching the Wallet.dat file wrong.

Ok, I'll check out armory. But I still don't get how I messed up my coins

[Joshster]

Well you should have your private keys to your coins in your back up. You may be switching the Wallet.dat file wrong.

Ok, I'll check out armory. But I still don't get how I messed up my coins

Don't worry, if you got the wallet.dat your coins should be safe. How many was it.

[anyroll]

dont worry you will get them.

[schnuber]

only 30mBTC. Fortunately this was a test run yet. I actually don't bother about the coins. But I wonder what I missed.

[schnuber]

Could the problem be that the .dat file is not portable from linux to Win7?

[Deafboy]

What about -resync parameter? Is it still needed on 0.8.X after wallet change?

edit: Of course I meant -rescan.

[schnuber]

What about -resync parameter? Is it still needed on 0.8.X after wallet change?

No idea. I am a newbie

[Blazr]

Could the problem be that the .dat file is not portable from linux to Win7?

Nope it works fine.

You need to do a rescan, from terminal type bitcoind -rescan

[schnuber]

Could the problem be that the .dat file is not portable from linux to Win7?

Nope it works fine.

You need to do a rescan, from terminal type bitcoind -rescan

I have bitcoin-qt, There is no rescan command as far as I can see

[Deafboy]

Just open command line, cd to the directory where bitcoin-qt is installed by doing:

cd "C:\Program Files\wherever_it_is\"
bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan

[schnuber]

Just open command line, cd to the directory where bitcoin-qt is installed by doing:

cd "C:\Program Files\wherever_it_is\"
bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan

Voila, You guys are geniuses. It worked. Coins are there now.
Thank you.

greets

[anyroll]

Yep no need to worry the blockchain will never scam you.