Ouch, I wasn't aware of that - why would it throw away the pool?
Ironically (for the OP) this is done just in case someone managed to get a copy of the unencrypted wallet.
Topic: Can the encrypted wallet be recovered using the unencrypted? - page 3. (Read 7336 times)
Ironically (for the OP) this is done just in case someone managed to get a copy of the unencrypted wallet.
Ouch, I wasn't aware of that - why would it throw away the pool?
edited OP to state that I made tx after I encrypted the wallet
In that case unfortunately you really have a problem as the unused addresses in the original backed up key pool were discarded when the wallet was encrypted (and re-encrypting the backup with the same password won't help as am pretty sure the addresses will be random).
edited OP to state that I made tx after I encrypted the wallet
Any change addresses that had been used prior to the encryption will still be present (otherwise the encrypted wallet would not be able to find those funds) it is only those addresses in the key pool that were unused (as far as the client could tell at that time) will have been discarded so as per Revalin's advice do a rescan and all should be good.
Yes, your coins are probably still there. The client pre-generates a bunch of addresses for change, so it's likely all there.
Shut it down and rerun it in a cmd window: "bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan".
Shut it down and rerun it in a cmd window: "bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan".
Here is what happened:
Made new wallet using satoshi client on windows 7
Made a backup
Sent a large amount of bitcoins to it
Realized the wallet wasn't encrypted, and encrypted it
Apparently did not back up the encrypted wallet
Made a few tx using the encrypted wallet, causing the balance to get sent as change to an address on the encrypted version
Got laptop stolen
Spent the last couple days trying to figure out why the backup wallet had a zero balance and couldn't see the change that had come back to it in the next tx
Hoping it is possible to replicate the process and recover the encrypted version. There are enough bitcoins on this wallet to put a huge amount of work into recovering them. I would guess that the encryption process is repeatable, but if there are any random factors in the new generation of 100 addresses, I am screwed.
Made new wallet using satoshi client on windows 7
Made a backup
Sent a large amount of bitcoins to it
Realized the wallet wasn't encrypted, and encrypted it
Apparently did not back up the encrypted wallet
Made a few tx using the encrypted wallet, causing the balance to get sent as change to an address on the encrypted version
Got laptop stolen
Spent the last couple days trying to figure out why the backup wallet had a zero balance and couldn't see the change that had come back to it in the next tx
Hoping it is possible to replicate the process and recover the encrypted version. There are enough bitcoins on this wallet to put a huge amount of work into recovering them. I would guess that the encryption process is repeatable, but if there are any random factors in the new generation of 100 addresses, I am screwed.
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