A fresh start, a success story, and thanks

[jojo69]

I have been intermittently running Armory for the better part of a decade.  I have certainly spent my share of time in here bothering the volunteers with the same old questions, and occasionally a rare one.

I think I am the worst sort of Armory user.  The actual clueless noobs throw up their hands and move on.  The actual skilled self-diagnose and only bring genuine issues.  I, on the other hand, am just knowledgeable enough to persist, to run custom pathing configs, to tinker with linux, in short to get myself in over my head and need help.

I have always tried to keep a node synced and online just in case, but, let's face it, Armory can be temperamental, and honestly there have been months at a time when my configuration was broken for one reason or another.

Recently the decision was taken to touch the old keys, for me a very frightening prospect.  I decided to go with Windows and with default pathing to keep everything simple, and I can report that the installation, sync, recovery of old paper backups, the offline signing process, and transfer of funds all went flawlessly (well, there was one hung restart on the online box, but I was able to draw on my vast knowledge and intensive Armory training /s to manually kill the db process which allowed a good restart.)

I was undecided whether to post this at all; the signal to noise ratio in here can be trying, but it occurs to me that all you guys hear are the problems, the frustration and at times even the abuse.  I thought it important to counter some of that with a tale of success.  This software, and the support I have had in here over the years, saw my coins safe from the darkest days of the fall of MtGox to the current halving market cycle, and some of them on into the future.

I wish to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has worked to keep this project moving forward.  Goatpig, you are my kind of deranged hippie man.  HCP, Carlton, Holliday...many others have my gratitude and respect for their patient help over the years.

For others reading this, MAKE THE GODDAMN PAPER BACKUP folks; it works.

[HCP]

Thanks for posting... it's nice to see a "Happy Ending" post occasionally, rather than posters who just disappear into the sunset after they get it all working

For others reading this, MAKE THE GODDAMN PAPER BACKUP folks; it works.

This... very much this!

[goatpig]

At least someone got this thing working, I was losing hope =D