Switching wallets

[FlutterPie]

I am changes what wallet I use after having a problem with armory. I now want to use electrum, but how do I get my balance from armory to electrum? I am unable to go into armory and send the coins to a new address.

So how can I do this?

[keithers]

I am changes what wallet I use after having a problem with armory. I now want to use electrum, but how do I get my balance from armory to electrum? I am unable to go into armory and send the coins to a new address.

So how can I do this?

Could you be a little more descriptive about your problem?   Can you not open Armory at all...or?

[FlutterPie]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661035.msg7475797#msg7475797

[Cicero2.0]

I think you can more your wallet.dat file to the new folder. Can someone more experienced confirm this?

[DubFX]

I think you can more your wallet.dat file to the new folder. Can someone more experienced confirm this?

Yes this should work with no problem, or just click on backup wallet and then load it in another wallet.

[Justin00]

yeah or just copy and paste it.
make sure you wait for bitcoin to fully close (check it in taskbar) otherwise you could corrupt it, I assume.. but better not test out the corruption thing ... just wait the extra few seconds for it to close properly.

I think you can more your wallet.dat file to the new folder. Can someone more experienced confirm this?

Yes this should work with no problem, or just click on backup wallet and then load it in another wallet.

[Velkro]

You described problem in too few words, because of that is hard to say.
Sending from one wallet client to another address on new client is easiest solution you are skipping whole importing/exporting process which looks often very diffirent on specific wallet software.
If you need specific guide about it let me know, i will try to search one or create one for you.

[Bernard Lerring]

Forgive my ignorance, but I assumed an armoury wallet.dat file is a different format to an electrum wallet.dat or a bitcoin-qt wallet.dat.

You couldn't just copy it over and expect it to work with different software, right?

[DubFX]

Forgive my ignorance, but I assumed an armoury wallet.dat file is a different format to an electrum wallet.dat or a bitcoin-qt wallet.dat.

You couldn't just copy it over and expect it to work with different software, right?

Oh i get it now.
I think that you can import it into electum with your private key but you should have copy of these keys as they won't become part of your electum seed.
But it's way better to send these coins to new address.

[Bernard Lerring]

I'm not sure, I was asking based on my own assumption.

I assume that because these wallets work in a different way (some are deterministic, some use a copy of blockchain) then you couldn't just copy the wallet.dat to a different type of wallet and expect it to work. Am I right?

[DubFX]

I'm not sure, I was asking based on my own assumption.

I assume that because these wallets work in a different way (some are deterministic, some use a copy of blockchain) then you couldn't just copy the wallet.dat to a different type of wallet and expect it to work. Am I right?

Yep it seems like that i could have thinked about it more and it does make a sense. OP may try if he wants but hope he won't forget to also backup that file otherwise if it wouldn't work or if it would damage the file he could loose all of his coins

[Soappa]

I am changes what wallet I use after having a problem with armory. I now want to use electrum, but how do I get my balance from armory to electrum? I am unable to go into armory and send the coins to a new address.

So how can I do this?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661035.msg7475797#msg7475797

So you cannot open the armory program, right?
Do you have the root key (similar to the wallet seed in Electrum)?

[FlutterPie]

I still have no idea what to do. Armory is still screwed up for me, and I do not have access to my coins. I dont know how to go about moving my coins in armory to another wallet.

I like armory, but if it doesn't work then it doesn't do me much good.

[JJB]

Can you not just import the wallet? Do you have back-ups?

[FlutterPie]

Can you not just import the wallet? Do you have back-ups?

would anything here work?

[JJB]

You need the wallet.dat file. Search for that then import it into your new client and all your coins will be there.

[FlutterPie]

You need the wallet.dat file. Search for that then import it into your new client and all your coins will be there.

My wallet.dat is in the folder called bitcoin. It is not in armory at all. I tried to import the wallet.dat from the bitcoin folder in Electrum wallet, but it didnt work. Maybe I tried it the wrong way, I dont know.

[guybrushthreepwood]

Can you try open up the wallet and get at the private keys. You could import them that way.

[FlutterPie]

Can you try open up the wallet and get at the private keys. You could import them that way.

I was just told that armory is not broken and my blockchain is corrupt or something. So I am rebuilding it now to see what happens.

[cookmac]

I thought sending bitcoin is the same for every wallet.. no?