for those upgrading from an old wallet without level db support (before 8.x) I would just make a backup (always) of your wallet before trying 9.2
I have not had a chance to build it and try it yet , is on my list of things to do.....
Understand & thankyou, that is very short & simple advice for those upgrading the Ixcoin wallet. I've been testing the different ways today & will report more below. From what I can tell, the wallet.dat file can be copied into any of the different builds and works just fine. No coins have ever been lost by me, always backup.
To the person asking for a button to return your coins to you after you hit the send button prior to a certain number of confirms , once the coins are actually 'sent' (nothing is actually sent other than information but we will stick with the analogy) it is a done deal. Period.
The entire code base of bitcoin is designed to prevent double spending !! (obviously iX and many other coins based on this too)
What you are asking for is contrary to the whole system.
That would be me, understand what your saying, was attempting to think out of the box, to that day in the near future, when Ixcoin no longer has any mined coins, only transaction fees. Pretty sure the premise I was attempting to make, is not contrary to the whole system, if I'm wrong please help me to understand. Imagine the transaction fee you offer while sending a payment is not excepted by
any miner. What then? Your send will never get even 1 confirm. What does a noob have to do in order to deal with this in todays environment? I've a pretty good idea, but never actually had to contend with the problem, so yes I'm arguing that it is not a done deal when you click send, until a miner excepts it.
There needs to be 'some' way
out there for users to ascertain what fee will likely get a confirm, preferably before they click send, code needs to be in the client (somehow), either as a list before sending (based on current tx fees offered by a group of miners) or how else will anyone ever send anything when suddenly the Tx fee jumps to 0.1 IXC or more? A user is left with testing higher and higher fees, by manual trial and error, having long periods of waiting in between, and fixing files from backups...etc Too painful to ever use.
It's not a double spend problem, its a try to spend once problem.
Will do just that, thanks for the links cinnamon, I'm sure my understanding of those topics can & will be improved.
Update on my testing, I'll try very hard to be brief...
This is for coin holders still running Thomas's final client release back in '11...aka: ixcoin-0.3.24.3-win32
Today I got a clean download of the blockchain using that client, and transferred a small amount of coin into it, so it had one transaction. Backed everything up and proceeded to attempt various upgrades to it. To my dismay, both ahmed_bodi 9.2 & cinnamon_carter's 8 builds crashed after a short while, never in the same place & I've been looking at logs and tested it a couple of different ways, then decided it wasn't really that important, because when I tried FrictionlessCoin's executable, it worked flawlessly the first time and reindexed all the blocks from disk, right up until today with no problem. You are left with nearly a 1GB of 'junk' files from the 'old days', but it worked. Then I applied ahmed_bodi 9.2 executable to those files and it instantly popped up without any re-indexing on disk or any other download, the client was ready to go. Wallet has the small amount of coin in it, tomorrow I'll do some more testing with sending/receiving, but everything looks good to go, and there is an upgrade path for those of you that haven't checked in for 2 or 3 years. Credit to FrictionlessCoin for making this possible.
GR