Topic: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - page 430. (Read 1382189 times)

Which one? you know there are 2 of them, right? One in your UI install (wherever your folder with the executable is kept) and one in your home directory. On windows this would be .\Users\(pcname)\.config\Sia\wallet

Locate that one and do NOT update. Copy paste it into a fresh command line wallet 0.3.3.3 (shut off any instances of Siad that may be running) and run siad, then check by running siac wallet status. It may show zero balance for a while since it is slow to connect to peers, so wait for it to reach current block height.  It is worth a shot if you presumably have zero coins now.

pallas, yes high hashrate on https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-GPU-Miner
It`s fake?
r9 290

All fine with wallet.backup updated this morning..  I will have to wait for the block explorer..

Have you by chance checked the wallet.backup in your home directory? Strangely it never updates and remains a static copy upon the first instance of SIAD that opens with the UI wallet.

Yeah, and I'm currently afraid to send any coins from the 0.3.3.3 wallet...

Everyone please keep in mind this is still all Beta... brand new technology with no well defined do's and don'ts, because there isn't any yet. None of us paid a dime for this software, we are here because it is new and cutting edge and for the purpose of helping the development process along with guys like Taek, nemo and others. Ya it gets frustrating... but we raised our hands and said yes we will play with it and test it all out and see where it goes. ok, I have to remind myself of this as well sometimes 

Lets keep our eye on the ball and get to the goal line.

Link please? It works only under Linux?

All coins are gone, 3.3.1 / 3.3.2 / 3.3.3  ... doesnt matter.

Hey sorry to hear that. It sorta matters though to me as I don't want to see my coins vanish either! So, was trying to understand what you did any different then I did. I know I did not do a " merge wallet" as some have. Who knows perhaps that's the culprit... ok.  

the latest from git repository

All coins are gone, 3.3.1 / 3.3.2 / 3.3.3  ... doesnt matter.  checked everything..

Assuming you only copied your wallet folder from 3.3.2 then 3.3.2 should still be fully intact. If you open it (3.3.2) you should still see all of your coins as if 3.3.3 never happened. I can open my 3.3.2 now and still see my coins and addresses etc. The only thing that affects this is if, like I did, is I clicked on upgrade now" in 3.3.2. that complicated simply copying over the wallet folder. Also, I allowed 3.3.3 to fully update BEFORE I copied my wallet folder over.  

Have you tried opening 3.3.2 and seeing if your coins are still there? Hard to imagine they are totally gone from 3.3.2 unless it was a cut wallet rather than copy. I know you know what you are doing lol, and so do I but I have a experimented and gotten off the beaten path and had what seemed as coin vanishing. But eventually found out why it appeared that way, but they were still recoverable. Just trying to help.  

Sorry it's not so easy to understand by reading the thread, is file sharing functionality already live?

What is new miner?

Taek, can you elaborate on this statement?:

"There is a hard fork coming and you need to have upgraded before it happens. You will not lose coins as long as you avoid using a wallet that you already backed up."

Should users be deleting all old backups prior to 0.3.3.3? Not making this clear could have disastrous results. Many people here are used to being able to use their original wallet.dat backup indefinitely. It may be my  inner dummy talking but that statement is extremely confusing.

Also, I agree with the others who have stated that better instructions (specifics that even a dummy can understand) need to be included in a readme with each release. For example, not once have I read that you need to backup your backup.wallet file. Many people will just backup the wallet.dat. And guess what? They will be absolutely pissed when they find out that it will not restore their wallet. Everyone should be backing up the entire wallet folder and this should be in huge bold letters somewhere in the official information.

I am not trying to rail on you, I am just trying to offer some constructive criticism.

Well I'm running standard ubuntu, a very common distro.
Please restore the code, thanks.

Anything below 0.3.3.3 is going to probably get hardforked off of the network in the next few days, there is a consensus bug. You really do need to upgrade.

I'm not sure what happened with mishax1, but:

0. Always, always back up your wallet before you do anything. New addresses get created everytime you:
    + upload a file
    + send money to someone
    + mine a block
    + get a new hosting contract
When a new wallet address gets created it's almost certain that there will be coins sent to that address. It's part of the privacy features of the wallet. (because of this reason, it's actually very hard to create something like a 'rich list' in Sia). This new address is not going to be in any of your previous backups, which means you need to back up the wallet again. My guess is that mixhax1 sent his coins after he created the wallet, and then when he upgraded the new address got obliterated.
We should have set up the wallet to use pregenerated addresses. That was a mistake on our part, and it's a fix coming in 0.4.0.
1. Don't use the 'auto-upgrade' button. Download the new UI from the github page.
2. Make sure that siad is NOT running when copying over the wallet file. Sometimes, siad is running in the background. And easy way to check is to go to 'localhost:9980'. If you get the message "Browser access disabled due to security vulnerability. Use Sia-UI or siac." it means that siad is still running in the background, and you need to close it before updating the wallet.

Again we are sorry for the hassle. We know how to address at least some of these problems, but pulling together the fixes is going to take time. This upgrade is the last upgrade for a while, please take the time to upgrade and move your coins over. There is a hard fork coming and you need to have upgraded before it happens. You will not lose coins as long as you avoid using a wallet that you already backed up.


It's not currently possible, and isn't very high on the priority list compared to some other major features we need.


Still works for me, I'm not sure why removing that code caused problems. I thought that the code I removed was about changing the timer from nano-seconds to milli-seconds. The linux mining timer still works for most machines.

Let me tell you what I did..

After I downloaded 0.3.3.3 I copied the wallet folder from 0.3.3.2 to 0.3.3.3,  everything seemed fine..  then I sent a test transaction to another 0.3.3.2 wallet on another PC.
I have received the 10ks on the other PC, but all the rest of coins I had on the 0.3.3.3 wallet are now gone, merge didn't help.
That is it.

let us know how you go mate ...

im off to rest / bed now ...

tanx ...

#crysx

Uh got it, someone removed the code needed to make timing work on linux. Why the hell, I really don't know. I'll need to revert some changes manually 😠

with the current miner - you cant ...

at least not that i know of ...

#crysx