Need Help: Importing wallet.dat

[r3wt]

Ok so i'm moving all my alt coin stuff to my "new" computer. i'm currently installing mint 15 and i was wondering if someone could provide me instructions on importing my wallets from a windows machine to a linux machine. would i simply install the linux version and import the wallet.dat somewhre? i need a little pointing in the right direction

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[jackjack]

Put wallet.dat in ~/.altcoin

[r3wt]

Put wallet.dat in ~/.altcoin

i'm not sure i follow. is that off of the root directory? not familiar with the filesystem in linux(although at one point i used linux 100 percent.) been a while. so for example i would put the wallet.dat inot ~/.digitalcoin ?

[jackjack]

Put wallet.dat in ~/.altcoin

i'm not sure i follow. is that off of the root directory? not familiar with the filesystem in linux(although at one point i used linux 100 percent.) been a while. so for example i would put the wallet.dat inot ~/.digitalcoin ?

~ is the home directory, not the root
That should be /home/username/.digitalcoin

[r3wt]

Put wallet.dat in ~/.altcoin

i'm not sure i follow. is that off of the root directory? not familiar with the filesystem in linux(although at one point i used linux 100 percent.) been a while. so for example i would put the wallet.dat inot ~/.digitalcoin ?

~ is the home directory, not the root
That should be /home/username/.digitalcoin

oh ok. thanks a ton jackjack. i think i can navigate it from here. i'll come back if i need further assistance. i appreciate you taking the time to help me kind sir.

[eddyfitz]

Just try no to loose them. as I already lost my 5000+ coins of YAC while moved it to ubuntu PC

[jackjack]

NP!
By the way, to know where is your ~, type 'cd && pwd'

[Kyune]

~ is the home directory, not the root
That should be /home/username/.digitalcoin

Yep, this.  Some altcoins will use capitalization in the directory path, e.g.,
~/.MemeCoin

If you run the QT or daemon once it will create the relevant directory and then you can just replace the "empty" wallet.dat with the one you are copying over.

The only coin I've encountered that doesn't follow this convention for the location of wallet.dat is a real oldie: fairbrix.  Instead, only the configuration file (fbx.conf) goes inside ~/.fairbrix and the wallet.dat goes inside ~/.fairbrix/data.  It's possible a few other ancient coins from that era also differ in their file structure.