Hope I'm not asking this in the wrong forum. I was playing with proxy settings on zcoin-qt version 0p8p7p8. Apparently I really fubar-ed the settings. zcoin-qt crashed and now will not run at all. When I try to restart, it gives two odd error messages and shuts down. I cannot get to the settings tab to change the bogus proxy settings. Tried extracting the .exe only, from zip. No joy. Same error messages, same crash. Do there exist configuration files somewhere, that hold proxy tab settings? Something I can edit with a text editor?
First error message:
zcoin = Error
Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?
[OK?]
Second error message:
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\coinhome\Zcoin\zcoin-qt.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
[OK?]
See if you can clear your settings here:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\zcoin
In the ...USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\zcoin directory,
I find files: db.log, debug.log, peers.dat, and wallet.dat.
I find directories: blocks, chainstate, and database.
When I edit files at this level, nothing looks like config data. db.log is empty.
When I edit files in the directories, many are binary. Non-binary files do not look like config data either.
Quite a few zero length files, particularly files with name "LOCK".
Quite a few files with name "MANIFEST".
zcoin-qt still crashes immediately.
If I copy wallet.dat to a flash stick, and completely delete/reinstall zcoin application, will my addresses be preserved?
No coins in the wallet.dat. So no fear of loss.