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January 10, 2014, 05:52:02 PM
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i get this trying to run bitcoind on win8, i have a conf file with a rpcpassword

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related problem is that when i run bitcoin-qt with daemon and server set to 1, i cannot connect to the rpc port from localhost.

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i can get this to work on linux, i just cannot figure out what to do on windows.  please help.
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TRy specifying a data directory:

bitcoind -datadir=c:\whatever\whatever\ getinfo
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January 10, 2014, 07:21:09 PM
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Quote from: Abdussamad on January 10, 2014, 07:07:43 PM
TRy specifying a data directory:

bitcoind -datadir=c:\whatever\whatever\ getinfo

thanks!

i figured it out, i had a new laptop and forgot windows hides file extensions by default so i had bitcoin.conf.conf woops...
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