LightWallet - a lightweight account manager for Monero

[Sasha00]

I put the file lightwallet.exe in the same folder with the file simplewallet.exe but a graphical shell is still not started. What am I doing wrong?

[jwinterm]

I put the file lightwallet.exe in the same folder with the file simplewallet.exe but a graphical shell is still not started. What am I doing wrong?

Did you find a 32 bit copy of simplewallet? The one on getmonero is 64 bit and won't work on your computer.

[Sasha00]

I did so, but the program does not start

[jwinterm]

I did so, but the program does not start

Hmm, I haven't tested with the 32 bit binaries. Could you tell me where you downloaded them from and I'll try to test it out this weekend or next (not sure I'll get to it today or tomorrow and then I'm traveling for a week)?

[Sasha00]

I downloaded here https://getmonero.org/downloads/

[jwinterm]

I downloaded here https://getmonero.org/downloads/

OK, thanks, I didn't realize they had 32 bit builds there now. I'll see if it works for me and PM you when I get around to it.

[smooth]

Can we get a screen shot or two in the OP?

[jwinterm]

Can we get a screen shot or two in the OP?

Ask and ye shall receive (sometimes)

[Ratatosk]

Hi everybody, just to be sure : the latest version of Lightwallet works flawlessly with the latest version of Monero, right ?

[jwinterm]

Hi everybody, just to be sure : the latest version of Lightwallet works flawlessly with the latest version of Monero, right ?

I wouldn't say flawlessly. There are some issues with recording transaction history, but afaik it should work fine for sending, receiving, and checking balance.

[Ratatosk]

Thank you :-)

[Foerster]

I just downloaded the client from https://getmonero.org/getting-started/choose , since I want to remove all my Altcoin holdings from various exchanges
However, when I tried to create a wallet it didn't do anything.

System is a clean W10 installation specifically set up just for backing up various coin wallets to cold storage media.
Is there some setting that I need to do beforehand? Other Light Wallets (e.g. Dogecoin) worked out of the box.

[jwinterm]

I just downloaded the client from https://getmonero.org/getting-started/choose , since I want to remove all my Altcoin holdings from various exchanges
However, when I tried to create a wallet it didn't do anything.

System is a clean W10 installation specifically set up just for backing up various coin wallets to cold storage media.
Is there some setting that I need to do beforehand? Other Light Wallets (e.g. Dogecoin) worked out of the box.

You have to have a copy of simplewallet.exe in the same directory with lightwallet, did you download that too and put it there?

[Foerster]

I did not.
Now it works.

Thank you.

[jwinterm]

I did not.
Now it works.

Thank you.

No problemo

[schnib]

why do i still have to sync up from scratch?
I thought this is the reason to use a light wallet, so i don't need to download the whole chain ?

[jwinterm]

why do i still have to sync up from scratch?
I thought this is the reason to use a light wallet, so i don't need to download the whole chain ?

You don't sync the blockchain, but your wallet has to scan each block to look for transactions, so it has to request the blocks from a local or remote daemon. In newer versions of simplewallet you can only scan from the time the wallet was created, which would be way faster for new wallets, but this hasn't been released in a binary yet I don't think.

[schnib]

my wallet just shut down almost before it was synced ?
now when i try to reopen it it closes down after i type in passphrase and click proceed, does it shut down as well if i type wrong password?

[jwinterm]

my wallet just shut down almost before it was synced ?
now when i try to reopen it it closes down after i type in passphrase and click proceed, does it shut down as well if i type wrong password?

No, I think it should prompt you that the password was wrong and try again. That sucks There's not really any way to save the wallet state before it's finished syncing, afaik. I've never heard of that shutting down behavior before though. Maybe try to open it in simplewallet directly and see what's going on?

[schnib]

opening in simplewallet works.
But now i cant use it.

The strange thing is the same thing happens for me with Factomd as well. As soon as it synced it shuts down...