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January 29, 2014, 10:03:54 PM
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How stable is the Mac OS version of Armory?

If I wanted to set up an offline wallet, and I need to assign a "watching-only" wallet on a computer that already has a wallet, how do I change it?

Once that is done, how do I remove the key data from the watching only wallet once it is converted (assuming the old wallet had key data on it)?
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January 30, 2014, 05:00:21 AM
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How stable is the Mac OS version of Armory?

Has quite a few UI related issues still. We recently got someone full time on it so the future is bright on that front.

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If I wanted to set up an offline wallet, and I need to assign a "watching-only" wallet on a computer that already has a wallet, how do I change it?

Once that is done, how do I remove the key data from the watching only wallet once it is converted (assuming the old wallet had key data on it)?

Not too sure what you are describing here.

This is how you should be going about it anyways: Create your wallet on your offline machine, create a paper or fragmented backup, verify the backup, then create a watching only wallet of your wallet and take that your online computer.

You can outright copy WO wallet that file to your datadir or import it through the import option.

If you have a wallet which private keys have been exposed to the network for a long period of time I'd suggest just moving these funds to a proper offline wallet. You can get rid of the private keys through Armory. Pick Delete/Remove this Wallet in your wallet properties window.

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January 30, 2014, 05:41:07 AM
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How stable is the Mac OS version of Armory?

Has quite a few UI related issues still. We recently got someone full time on it so the future is bright on that front.

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If I wanted to set up an offline wallet, and I need to assign a "watching-only" wallet on a computer that already has a wallet, how do I change it?

Once that is done, how do I remove the key data from the watching only wallet once it is converted (assuming the old wallet had key data on it)?

Not too sure what you are describing here.

This is how you should be going about it anyways: Create your wallet on your offline machine, create a paper or fragmented backup, verify the backup, then create a watching only wallet of your wallet and take that your online computer.

You can outright copy WO wallet that file to your datadir or import it through the import option.

If you have a wallet which private keys have been exposed to the network for a long period of time I'd suggest just moving these funds to a proper offline wallet. You can get rid of the private keys through Armory. Pick Delete/Remove this Wallet in your wallet properties window.

I tried Armory on Mac a while back but didn't get on with it very well. Good news about getting someone full time working on Mac. When would you expect a new Mac version?
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January 30, 2014, 06:38:33 AM
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We're hoping to have a full Mac support by 0.91, which is the next release.

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January 30, 2014, 06:43:37 AM
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We're hoping to have a full Mac support by 0.91, which is the next release.

Great thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it.
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January 31, 2014, 03:52:55 AM
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We hope sometimes in February, but nothing is set in stone yet.

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January 31, 2014, 06:50:00 AM
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We hope sometimes in February, but nothing is set in stone yet.

Whip that employee a bit harder Wink joking .... looking forward to trying it out, whenever it gets released Smiley
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February 05, 2014, 06:05:18 PM
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For me the interface is pretty stable but Armory can't find my standard Bitcoin installation. (which is completely synced to the network) Is it possible that the it fails because the data directory (/Users/<name>/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin) is a symbolic link?
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February 05, 2014, 10:10:48 PM
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In the meantime, how reliable is it?

Is it still worth using?

It was pretty unstable when I tried it a few months ago.  Kept crashing on me and slowed down my machine even more (Bitcoin-QT already does a number on it).

Will be great when 0.91 comes out with full support for OS X.  I've seen Armory running nicely on Windows so can't wait to have that stability on OS X as well.

Armory Dev Team,

Keep up the good work!
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February 06, 2014, 03:30:15 AM
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In the meantime, how reliable is it?

Is it still worth using?

It was pretty unstable when I tried it a few months ago.  Kept crashing on me and slowed down my machine even more (Bitcoin-QT already does a number on it).

Will be great when 0.91 comes out with full support for OS X.  I've seen Armory running nicely on Windows so can't wait to have that stability on OS X as well.

Armory Dev Team,

Keep up the good work!


Yeah, I wouldn't recommend running any bitcoin-qt based wallets on OSX, they slow the machine down and also have a tendency to get corrupted. (Not suggesting Armory is bitcoin-qt based, just a general comment on bitcoin-qt or altcoin wallets that download the full blockchain running on OSX)

Looking forward to 0.91 !!
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February 06, 2014, 11:21:16 AM
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Bitcoin-QT is actually rock solid on my iMac. Armory however...well thats a different matter!  Roll Eyes

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February 06, 2014, 11:47:30 AM
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Bitcoin-QT is actually rock solid on my iMac. Armory however...well thats a different matter!  Roll Eyes

My bitcoin-QT is normally ok, but yesterday my Mac "hung" and then it had to reindex the whole blockchain upon rebooting ..... guess that's to be expected but not fun.
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February 08, 2014, 08:33:35 PM
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Bitcoin-QT is actually rock solid on my iMac. Armory however...well thats a different matter!  Roll Eyes

No complaints here with Bitcoin-QT on mac, however, I must say that I can't wait for the new version to come out with parallel block downloading!
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