I retrieved all of the privatekeys from the new wallet (which is the mac version that I sent the 10000 on and had the original transaction error on). Then went into Windows, downloaded the blockchain per the instructions, installed the old wallet. replaced all of the appdata with the old blockchain. imported privatekeys, the wallets come up in the 'receive coins' list. Still no balance. It is still updating from the blockchain... do I have to wait until it has updated to see the balance? The instructions say the balance should be there as soon as cinnicoinqt is reopened.
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