I've been away for a few days and haven't been home to try it yet, but thanks for the answer.
I don't think I'll buy a new car just yet as I am happy with the one I have. Hopefully bitcoin will continue its rise and I'll be able to afford an M5
Topic: Migrating Wallet (Read 707 times)
Thanks Ben,
I've been away for a few days and haven't been home to try it yet, but thanks for the answer.
I don't think I'll buy a new car just yet as I am happy with the one I have. Hopefully bitcoin will continue its rise and I'll be able to afford an M5
I've been away for a few days and haven't been home to try it yet, but thanks for the answer.
I don't think I'll buy a new car just yet as I am happy with the one I have. Hopefully bitcoin will continue its rise and I'll be able to afford an M5
So you have two PC's. The old one with enough 
BTC in the wallet, and a new one to which you might have sent five BTC.
I would proceed like this:
Stop all bitcoin programs on both PC's
Make a backup of the wallet.dat file on the new PC, call it wallet-dat-new
Make a backup of the wallet.dat file on the old PC, call it wallet-dat-old
Install version 0.8 of bitcoin-qt on the new PC. This version is fine for you, in case you know about the fork yesterday. You're not going to mine.
Start bitcoin-qt 0.8 on the new PC and let it run for a minute so it has downloaded a little bit of the blockchain.
Stop bitcoin-qt on the new PC.
Copy wallet-dat-old to wallet.dat on the new PC, overwriting the existing wallet.dat (you have a backup of it too)
Start bitcoin-qt on the new PC and let it download the complete blockchain. This will take a while. Your amount of BTC should appear while it is downloading.
You now have the latest bitcoin-qt program with your BTC in it.
Once you succeeded, you'll get instructions to check for the five BTC
Which brand car are you looking at ?
Good luck!
BTC in the wallet, and a new one to which you might have sent five BTC.I would proceed like this:
Stop all bitcoin programs on both PC's
Make a backup of the wallet.dat file on the new PC, call it wallet-dat-new
Make a backup of the wallet.dat file on the old PC, call it wallet-dat-old
Install version 0.8 of bitcoin-qt on the new PC. This version is fine for you, in case you know about the fork yesterday. You're not going to mine.
Start bitcoin-qt 0.8 on the new PC and let it run for a minute so it has downloaded a little bit of the blockchain.
Stop bitcoin-qt on the new PC.
Copy wallet-dat-old to wallet.dat on the new PC, overwriting the existing wallet.dat (you have a backup of it too)
Start bitcoin-qt on the new PC and let it download the complete blockchain. This will take a while. Your amount of BTC should appear while it is downloading.
You now have the latest bitcoin-qt program with your BTC in it.
Once you succeeded, you'll get instructions to check for the five BTC
Which brand car are you looking at ?
Good luck!
BTW, can I just use one of the backup wallets to copy/paste since the transaction never went through?
Thanks!
I have several backups of the old wallet file. The new one is empty, so no biggie there.
I have several backups of the old wallet file. The new one is empty, so no biggie there.
Since it's an old client, I'm not sure if it would work, but so long as you make a backup of it (or just leave a copy with the old client) and a backup of the wallet on your newer computer before you try, it won't hurt if it doesn't work. Also, you should make a backup before using pywallet, as I'm not sure what it will do if the wallet format is different from what it expects. Backups are always a good idea.
Yes it finished downloading the blockchain.
Can I just copy/paste the wallet file if I cancel the transaction with pywallet?
Can I just copy/paste the wallet file if I cancel the transaction with pywallet?
Has your old client finished redownloading the blockchain? If not, that could be the problem.
Also, that program is called pywallet: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-delete-your-0unconfirmed-transactions-in-30-seconds-35214
Also, that program is called pywallet: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-delete-your-0unconfirmed-transactions-in-30-seconds-35214
Hi all,
Years ago I mined some bitcoin and have sort of forgotten about it since then. Now I find I can almost buy a new car with the profit.
However my bitcoin wallet is on an old machine with an old version of the bitcoin software. I decided to install the newest client on my main machine, and tested to see if I could send 5 BTC from the old one to the new one. It seemed that the old client did not want to send as it said in the status column: 0\unconfirmed: network problems?.
So I am wondering what the easiest way to transfer the wallet or funds from the old machine to the new one?
I read something about cancelling a transaction with a program called pysomething. Should I do that and then transfer the wallet file? If so, then how would I do that?
Thanks for any help on the matter,
Josor
Years ago I mined some bitcoin and have sort of forgotten about it since then. Now I find I can almost buy a new car with the profit.
However my bitcoin wallet is on an old machine with an old version of the bitcoin software. I decided to install the newest client on my main machine, and tested to see if I could send 5 BTC from the old one to the new one. It seemed that the old client did not want to send as it said in the status column: 0\unconfirmed: network problems?.
So I am wondering what the easiest way to transfer the wallet or funds from the old machine to the new one?
I read something about cancelling a transaction with a program called pysomething. Should I do that and then transfer the wallet file? If so, then how would I do that?
Thanks for any help on the matter,
Josor
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