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February 01, 2014, 02:20:02 PM
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I accidentally sent some bitcoin from my online account with Virwox to my Armory wallet address before bitcoin-qt was synchronized. It was a beginners mistake and I am still waiting for bitcoin-qt to synchronize. I can't add the Armory address (that the bitcoin was sent to) to the receiving address in bitcoin-qt. What can I do to receive the bitcoin I withdrew? All help is greatly appreciated!
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Bitcoin addresses contain a checksum, so it is very unlikely that mistyping an address will cause you to lose money.
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February 01, 2014, 02:26:12 PM
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I accidentally sent some bitcoin from my online account with Virwox to my Armory wallet address before bitcoin-qt was synchronized. It was a beginners mistake and I am still waiting for bitcoin-qt to synchronize. I can't add the Armory address (that the bitcoin was sent to) to the receiving address in bitcoin-qt. What can I do to receive the bitcoin I withdrew? All help is greatly appreciated!

Copy the wallet.dat from your armoury folder, and replace the one already it in your bitcoin-qt. Then your Bitcoin-qt will be using the the address of your armoury wallet.  Smiley
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February 01, 2014, 02:47:00 PM
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Could you walk me through how to do that? I will love you forever.
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February 01, 2014, 03:02:53 PM
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Could you walk me through how to do that? I will love you forever.

If you are going to love me forever than I better not help you. As I am already married, and my wife might divorce me.  Smiley

Go to your .armory folder

There should be a file called wallet.dat

Copy that file, then go to .bitcoin and replace this wallet.dat with the one you copied from your .armory folder.

Open bitcoin-qt, you are now using the wallet address of your armory wallet.
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February 01, 2014, 03:49:44 PM
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Should I wait for bitcoin-qt to synchronize before I do this? Should I be worried about time passing as the withdrawal has completed and the bitcoin is basically in limbo?
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February 01, 2014, 03:52:51 PM
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Should I wait for bitcoin-qt to synchronize before I do this? Should I be worried about time passing as the withdrawal has completed and the bitcoin is basically in limbo?

You don't need to wait for the synchronize to finish, this will not mess anything up. You will see the history of your transaction. And you will see your bitcoin, when you finish sync.
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February 01, 2014, 04:35:02 PM
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I cannot find the wallet.dat in my armory folder, I do see wallet.dat in bitcoin-qt but not armory.
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February 01, 2014, 04:42:31 PM
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1)  wait for bitcoin-qt to finish

2)  do you have a watching only wallet created?  If not go to your offline armory install and create one.  Copy it over to your online computer.

3)  install armory on your online computer

4)  import the watching only wallet into armory

5)  wait for armory to sync


Guide to armory offline install on USB key:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241730.0
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February 02, 2014, 07:14:19 PM
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I cannot find the wallet.dat in my armory folder, I do see wallet.dat in bitcoin-qt but not armory.

There is none, they are not interchangeable

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February 02, 2014, 07:58:55 PM
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I accidentally sent some bitcoin from my online account with Virwox to my Armory wallet address before bitcoin-qt was synchronized. It was a beginners mistake and I am still waiting for bitcoin-qt to synchronize. I can't add the Armory address (that the bitcoin was sent to) to the receiving address in bitcoin-qt. What can I do to receive the bitcoin I withdrew? All help is greatly appreciated!

Copy the wallet.dat from your armoury folder, and replace the one already it in your bitcoin-qt. Then your Bitcoin-qt will be using the the address of your armoury wallet.  Smiley

No. Why would you give blatantly wrong information?

OP, there is an Armory subforum here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=97.0

If you move your thread there, you will probably get help from those involved with Armory.

The bitcoin is not in "limbo", that is not how Bitcoin works. Every coin is stored in the block chain, your private keys in your wallet allow you to access your coins on the block chain. The most important thing is to save those private keys (in other words, don't start deleting wallet files).

As some others have said, once you let BitcoinQt finish downloading the block chain, you can sync Armory, and then you will be able to see and access your bitcoins.

There are also other methods of pulling the private keys out of your wallet should you be in a hurry to access your coins, but these are more advanced user tasks and you should make sure you know exactly what you are doing before attempting them.

cp1 gave a good sequence of steps to view your Armory balances (and ultimately access the coins).

If you aren't the sole controller of your private keys, you don't have any bitcoins.
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