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December 23, 2010, 01:52:17 AM
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As far as I understand, the client won't pick up the balance available to a wallet if you just drop it in place of another wallet.
So, is there another way other than simply discard your blockchain and force a re-download ? Or maybe I missed something Smiley
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December 23, 2010, 03:33:45 AM
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Right now you have to delete the block database. It is possible for Bitcoin to re-scan the blocks. It doesn't look too difficult: loop through every block and run AddToWalletIfMine on each tx.
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December 23, 2010, 04:04:39 AM
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I've also been hit by this problem once (back when I had a poor internet connection and really didn't want to redownload the block chain). It'd be a useful feature.
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February 09, 2011, 03:29:38 PM
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I concur. This would be handy. Then it wouldn't matter which version of your wallet you had backed up.
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February 09, 2011, 04:13:38 PM
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The -rescan argument in 0.3.20 does this.
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February 09, 2011, 09:12:04 PM
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Quote from: gavinandresen on February 09, 2011, 04:13:38 PM
The -rescan argument in 0.3.20 does this.
Is it possible (not necessarily in the CLI, a function in the code could do too), to rescan against a single key ?
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