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June 07, 2013, 07:57:16 PM
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Why don't some of you new developers of coins change the location and name of the wallet file (wallet.dat).. i mean really, with all these coins all of them have the same friggin name.  WHY?  How about naming the file like ex. "newcoinwallet.dat" then we would already know what coin the wallet is for.. honestly this is a simple and needed fix.  I can't believe no one has done this yet.. and if so .. i have not seen it.

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June 07, 2013, 08:05:41 PM
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Why don't some of you new developers of coins change the location and name of the wallet file (wallet.dat).. i mean really, with all these coins all of them have the same friggin name.  WHY?  How about naming the file like ex. "newcoinwallet.dat" then we would already know what coin the wallet is for.. honestly this is a simple and needed fix.  I can't believe no one has done this yet.. and if so .. i have not seen it.

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Not a bad idea, but I'm not sure I understand why it would be considered a 'needed' fix though?
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June 07, 2013, 08:08:05 PM
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All your wallets have the same name for each and every coin and you don't see a potential problem?  Maybe it's just me.. but that just doesn't make sense.  I mean they are in appropriately named folder.. but is that really enough to make it easy to store.. not really.. well it may not be a needed fix.. but I would like it.  Maybe it's just me.  Hence discuss.
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June 07, 2013, 08:20:59 PM
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You can change the location of the wallet.dat yourself by launching the client with "-datadir=[location]"
example: litecoin-qt.exe -datadir=.
^ Would put the wallet.dat in the current folder.
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June 07, 2013, 08:22:58 PM
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ok, nice to know..thanks for that TheSpiral Smiley
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June 07, 2013, 08:34:31 PM
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ok, nice to know..thanks for that TheSpiral Smiley

Backing them up, I did have to create a separate folder for each coin to separate the dat files as opposed to just being able to drop them in one folder, so you do have a point.  I would imagine that changing that filed name would be a relatively easy find & replace in the code too.
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June 07, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
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ok, nice to know..thanks for that TheSpiral Smiley

Especially helpful if you have the Bitcoin blockchain on your machine and don't want to use up the space on an SSD that is your system drive too.
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June 07, 2013, 08:42:23 PM
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Too bad there wasn't a flag you could do like "-walletname=whateveriwant.dat" Just throwing out ideas.. ya I also had to create separate folders for each of my coin backups.. kinda a pain but not life threatening by any means.. just thinking about innovation and the clustermess of having 100 wallet.dat files on my pc.(future?)...
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June 07, 2013, 08:57:51 PM
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I like it.  Don't know that it would get any traction with bitcoin itself since it's the daddy coin (but still would be nice to be able to chose to set bitcoin.dat if I wanted to), but maybe some of the alts will pick this up.
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June 07, 2013, 10:34:03 PM
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When backing up your wallet.dat to usb or whatever, I just rename it to whatever coin it is for, eg: Bitcoin.dat, litecoin.dat, shitcoin.dat etc, then if I ever need to use it I know which it is, and then simply rename it back to wallet.dat
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June 07, 2013, 10:45:47 PM
Last edit: June 07, 2013, 11:11:19 PM by TheDirtybird
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Yep that works too with a little renaming....I am sure many have a few ways to do so... might be good to list your other backup methods here as well... I like where this conversation is headed (being helpful) Smiley  on another note.. a few more coins released today all with wallet.dat as the name of the wallet.  Without even the slightest innovation in any of them other than changing a few settings (some don't even take the time to change icons or file names).. so many copycats...lol.. how long till we reach 100 coins??
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