Multibit - multiple receiving addresses

[finlon]

I have been using multibit since a while back. And, sometimes the wallet starts behaving weirdly. Just to prevent my funds from being lost, I have the private key of the wallet exported to my desktop.
After a recent application crash, I couldn't see any wallets in the multibit, and had to import the private key. But on doing so , an extra receiving address got added.

So, in future if I was to import the same private key from before, then will it automatically have the new receiving address which just got added recently?

[shorena]

Its hard to understand what you think your private key is. The way multibit handles private keys [1] is that it creates a file for each private key, which will only have said key in it. There is also the main wallet file which usually contains all your private keys. If you restore from the main wallet file it should include all newly generated private keys. If you restore from a key backup file it will not.


[1] https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_fileDescriptions.html

[NeuroticFish]

You should backup the whole folder, not only the keys.

In case of troouble, you can just load up the wallet file(s), because if you import a (another adress') key into an existing wallet you will indeed end up with a wallet with 2 addresses.

[finlon]

You should backup the whole folder, not only the keys.

In case of troouble, you can just load up the wallet file(s), because if you import a (another adress') key into an existing wallet you will indeed end up with a wallet with 2 addresses.

I actually happen to have lot of wallets loaded up in the multibit client, and have backups of all the keys, but after loading them back with the keys, an extra address gets added. Now I am not sure if that will automatically be aded, next time i import a private key.

[shorena]

You should backup the whole folder, not only the keys.

In case of troouble, you can just load up the wallet file(s), because if you import a (another adress') key into an existing wallet you will indeed end up with a wallet with 2 addresses.

I actually happen to have lot of wallets loaded up in the multibit client, and have backups of all the keys, but after loading them back with the keys, an extra address gets added. Now I am not sure if that will automatically be aded, next time i import a private key.

Might be because a fresh wallet comes with at least one address... how exactly do you "load them"?

[finlon]

You should backup the whole folder, not only the keys.

In case of troouble, you can just load up the wallet file(s), because if you import a (another adress') key into an existing wallet you will indeed end up with a wallet with 2 addresses.

I actually happen to have lot of wallets loaded up in the multibit client, and have backups of all the keys, but after loading them back with the keys, an extra address gets added. Now I am not sure if that will automatically be aded, next time i import a private key.

Might be because a fresh wallet comes with at least one address... how exactly do you "load them"?

If I load them in using the wallet folder, where the .wallet files are present then it doesn't add the address. But when I click on import private key , then it adds the address to the current opened wallet.

[shorena]

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But when I click on import private key , then it adds the address to the current opened wallet.

Yes thats what import priv. key does. It would be horribly unsafe if it would overwrite existing keys

[El Emperador]

Import the folder called "Multibit-data"

[pooya87]

I have been using multibit since a while back. And, sometimes the wallet starts behaving weirdly. Just to prevent my funds from being lost, I have the private key of the wallet exported to my desktop.
After a recent application crash, I couldn't see any wallets in the multibit, and had to import the private key. But on doing so , an extra receiving address got added.

So, in future if I was to import the same private key from before, then will it automatically have the new receiving address which just got added recently?

it might be because when you reinstalled multibit and rerun the program it created a new wallet for you then you imported the one so you have the new address