A lot of people are having trouble with the latest non-beta wallet. And I don't believe we have a RC1 Mac wallet yet. The second problem is an issue because the code is closed. Evan is trying to get a setup where he can compile a mac wallet, but I don't think he's gotten there yet???
If I want to go with the win wallet, which version is the newest (or I should say most reliable)? I do keep antivirus on win, firewall, and all that, so it should be safe. I just figured the mac side of my dualboot may be safer, since I rarely use mac os. But if it's flakey, I may just go with the win version for now.
And any issue if I want to move coins from a really old wallet (like back when drk was still cpu only mining)? I left about 100 stranded drk on an old laptop and would like to move them off.
Well, 2 things. First, you don't even have to have your coins on a machine. just make a backup of your wallet while it's running, ie: Files => Backup Wallet and give it a name so you know where it came from, such as DRK_Old_Laptop.dat and put it on a jump drive (or take all your backups and put them on several jump drives, then keep those safe in different areas.)
Second way to backup is to simply open up the darkcoin folder
when the wallet in NOT running, (in windows it's User/You/AppData/darkcoin/wallet.dat), rename the wallet as above to show which wallet it is and back it up on a jump drive again.
Finally, you can always download the RC1 wallet for windows, deposit all your distributed coins into that one, make a backup of that single wallet.dat file and close out the program (remove the darkcoin folder) from your windows machine. NOw your coins are in "cold storage" and off line.
1. Please make sure you set a passphrase before you save your wallets, and that it is both complex and that you DON'T FORGET IT EVER!!!
2. You can even write your passphrase down in a txt file and store it with the jump drives. But remember, anyone that can get ahold of your jump drives can get your coins. This can be a good thing if something should happen to you and you want family members to have access to the coin. This is like having cash hidden away in your home. Someone could still physically break into your home and steal it.
3. To get your coins back out of cold storage, install a wallet, then replace the wallet.dat in the darkcoin folder with your DRK_Old_Laptop.dat and rename it to wallet.dat. Do this when the wallet is closed, not running, then restart the wallet and your coins will immediately be there (as long as the wallet was sync'd)