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Zyley

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Quote from: Sonny on May 23, 2014, 11:39:18 AM

Quote from: clockers25 on May 22, 2014, 11:59:20 AM

Ahhhh fucking victory!!!!!! It finally worked

Good to hear that.
I hope you have made a few encrypted backups now and put them in separate place, such as your laptop, PC, USB, dropbox, etc. Cheesy

Is it a good idea to store crypto money in several different places at the same time?
To diversify the risk if you plan to store them for years.

Sonny

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Quote from: clockers25 on May 22, 2014, 11:59:20 AM

Ahhhh fucking victory!!!!!! It finally worked

Good to hear that.
I hope you have made a few encrypted backups now and put them in separate place, such as your laptop, PC, USB, dropbox, etc. Cheesy

Injust

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Grats on getting your coins back

Hope you will know to make more backups in the future =D

mrhelpful

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Congrats on getting your coins back!

Just curious how much coins was this?

Also, if you can break down the steps of what you did for new multi bit users - that would be extremely helpful since you already had your 1st hand experience.

Zyley

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Congrats, man!
Actually, this is a great lesson for everybody. On how to save coins over time.

bitsmichel

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Ahhhh fucking victory!!!!!! It finally worked

Congrats! the wallet files are very very important, data is money

clockers25

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Ahhhh fucking victory!!!!!! It finally worked

clockers25

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Now I'm kind of thinking I was hacked as I've gone to open wallet and opened the file that I transferred over and still showing a balance of 0 :-(

clockers25

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Yea i was trying to open the file directly, duh....im trying to find how to show the multibit directory, so I can place the files from the external drive onto it. I can't figure out how to access the hidden files. Im running 10.9 maverick.

Tammy Chan

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Quote from: clockers25 on May 22, 2014, 09:54:11 AM

OK so following multibit instructions, I was able to find files such as multibit.wallet......I was unable to find a .dat. File.

"wallet.dat" is the default name for wallet file of bitcoin-qt.
".wallet" is the default name for wallet file of multibit.

So, it is perfectly fine.

Quote from: clockers25 on May 22, 2014, 09:54:11 AM

I transferred over the .wallet file but when I go to open it, says "there is no application set to open the document multibit.wallet.

Are you using multibit to load the wallet file? It seems to me that you are trying to open the file directly.

Injust

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Quote from: eatingtic on May 22, 2014, 09:56:41 AM

Quote from: clockers25 on May 22, 2014, 09:54:11 AM

OK so following multibit instructions, I was able to find files such as multibit.wallet......I was unable to find a .dat. File.

I transferred over the .wallet file but when I go to open it, says "there is no application set to open the document multibit.wallet.

Suggestions?

Thanks a million

Wait what the heck.. you found the file, but its not doing anything?

Okay, first of all, make a million copies of the multibit.wallet file. It contains your private keys, DON'T LOSE THAT FILE.
The .wallet file is not an executable by itself, you have to put it in the data directory of where Multibit stores its wallet, and then start the .DMG for Multibit.

eatingtic

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Quote from: clockers25 on May 22, 2014, 09:54:11 AM

OK so following multibit instructions, I was able to find files such as multibit.wallet......I was unable to find a .dat. File.

I transferred over the .wallet file but when I go to open it, says "there is no application set to open the document multibit.wallet.

Suggestions?

Thanks a million

Wait what the heck.. you found the file, but its not doing anything?

clockers25

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OK so following multibit instructions, I was able to find files such as multibit.wallet......I was unable to find a .dat. File.

I transferred over the .wallet file but when I go to open it, says "there is no application set to open the document multibit.wallet.

Suggestions?

Thanks a million

Injust

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Quote from: deebob on May 21, 2014, 06:27:15 PM

Your looking for the wallet.dat not dmg.file so look that up, and you should be fine?

If not ask the multibit support to do this, which shouldnt be any further issue.

Wallet.dat is a Bitcoin Core wallet file name, not Multibit Tongue

deebob

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Your looking for the wallet.dat not dmg.file so look that up, and you should be fine?

If not ask the multibit support to do this, which shouldnt be any further issue.

Injust

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Quote from: clockers25 on May 21, 2014, 03:15:33 PM

OK so I got the external drive and laptop back. I can only find the multibit wallet as a .dmg file. I transferred it over and opened it up and it's showing a balance of 0. Anybody have any suggestions or ideas or am I shit out of luck?!?!

Thanks

Okay, as far as I know about Macs (I'm a Windows user, unfortunately), the DMG is just the actual Multibit program. I think what you did is just transfer the program over and it created a new set of data files and is thus showing a balance of 0 from them.
You need to retrieve the WALLET file that was created by Multibit, which I cannot really help you with because I don't use that program or that OS.

clockers25

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OK so I got the external drive and laptop back. I can only find the multibit wallet as a .dmg file. I transferred it over and opened it up and it's showing a balance of 0. Anybody have any suggestions or ideas or am I shit out of luck?!?!

Thanks

clockers25

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Thank you! Will post an update soon!!!

Injust

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Quote from: clockers25 on May 20, 2014, 07:27:16 PM

OK so I'm picking up hard drive tmrw. They were able to transfer my entire hard drive to another drive. So I should be ok right?

Just open up the Multibit app and voila?? Or is it much more complicated than that after transnsferribg from original hard drive?

As long as you got the wallet file intact, your whole computer could be toast and you'd still have your stuff.
So essentially, yeah. Just run Multibit and hope for the best

clockers25

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OK so I'm picking up hard drive tmrw. They were able to transfer my entire hard drive to another drive. So I should be ok right?

Just open up the Multibit app and voila?? Or is it much more complicated than that after transnsferribg from original hard drive?

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