Existing MAC users prior to version 1.4.2 only!
This
only applies to Mac users that already had an EverGreenCoin wallet and an existing wallet.dat file prior to v1.4.2. This should only include Mac EverGreenCoin wallets version 1.3 as any earlier versions were blocked from the network via a protocol upgrade mid last year.
A compatibility mismatch has been uncovered in a dependency used to build the Mac EverGreenCoin wallets prior to version 1.4.2 that stores the data in the wallet.dat file to disk. This is only HOW the data is stored to disk. Nothing is wrong with the data itself and all your EverGreenCoins are perfectly safe. For EverGreenCoin version 1.3 Mac users, we do need to migrate your EverGreenCoin to the version 1.4.2 EverGreenCoin Mac Wallet.
These are the options we have to migrate your EverGreenCoin into a wallet.dat file data which stores the data to disk in the same way as all other EverGreenCoin wallets (all Linux and all Windows versions) on the network:
Option #1 - Using your existing EverGreenCoin version 1.3 wallet, send all your EverGreenCoin to myself or an exchange wallet as a temporary holding. You can send them to me and I will compensate for the fees when I send them back to your new version 1.4.2 wallet or you can send them to an exchange as a temporary holding place but, you will then have to pay the transaction fees and any fees the exchange might charge you. After you have sent them to the place you wish to hold them temporarily, either a wallet I will use for people wishing to do this or the exchange you have chosen, upgrade to version 1.4.2 and then I will or you can via the exchange you had chosen, send them to your new v1.4.2 wallet.
Option #2 -
- Close your v1.3 wallet if it is open
- Rename your wallet.dat file to walletORIGINAL.dat
- Start the new version 1.4.2 EverGreenCoin wallet and allow it to build a new wallet.dat file
- Copy a receiving address from the receive tab in the new wallet
- Close the version 1.4.2 wallet
- Rename the new wallet.dat file you just created to walletNEW.dat
- Rename walletORIGINAL.dat to wallet.dat
- Start your, soon to be old, version 1.3 wallet
- Send the balance of the coins to the address you copied of the new wallet
- Close the old version 1.3 wallet
- Rename wallet.dat to walletORIGINAL.dat again
- Rename walletNEW.dat to wallet.dat
- Open your new version 1.4.2 wallet
- Store the walletORGINAL.dat and your version 1.3 wallet in a safe place where you will not mistakenly launch in the future
New Mac users as of v1.4.2, that do not have an existing wallet.dat from v1.3, are fine to use the EverGreenCoin Version 1.4.2.0 wallets and have no cerncern. This version does use the same dependency as Linux and Windows already and will bring the entire network to using the same dependencies that store the wallet.dat file data to disk. This is why I want to migrate existing Mac v1.3 wallets to Mac v1.4.2, so the network is completely standardized with the way the wallet.dat file is stored to disk.
I sincerly appoligize for this and the inconvinence it may cause any Mac user. If you have questions or would like to make any arragngments for this, please contact me via PM.
EDIT: Of course, one could migrate by exporting and importing private keys also.
