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jim618

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Quote from: Tittiez on August 12, 2012, 05:14:18 PM

Linux here, seems like copying doesn't work outside of Multibit, if I copy something in Multibit then I can paste it in other parts of multibit, but I cannot paste it outside of the program. 0.4.6

Raised as:
https://github.com/jim618/multibit/issues/45

Tittiez

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Quote from: jim618 on August 13, 2012, 04:14:02 AM

Hi Tittiez,

A few questions:
+ what Linux are you running ?
+ are you trying to paste text or QR codes ?
+ what application are you pasting into ?

How the cut and paste works is that the source and destination both need to 'talk' the same data format. Especially with images there are a few formats. Give me the details of what you are trying to do and I will raise an issue against it.

Cheers

+ Ubuntu 12.04
+ Text (Addresses)
+ Chromium (18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367 Linux) Ubuntu 12.04)

jim618

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Hi Tittiez,

A few questions:
+ what Linux are you running ?
+ are you trying to paste text or QR codes ?
+ what application are you pasting into ?

How the cut and paste works is that the source and destination both need to 'talk' the same data format. Especially with images there are a few formats. Give me the details of what you are trying to do and I will raise an issue against it.

Cheers

Tittiez

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Linux here, seems like copying doesn't work outside of Multibit, if I copy something in Multibit then I can paste it in other parts of multibit, but I cannot paste it outside of the program. 0.4.6

freemoney458

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Looks great!

jim618

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In parallel with testing etc of the encrypted wallets I plan to do some UI tidy up.

I have tweaked the sidepanel as shown below:

This has the following changes:
+ removes the swatch support (which has been pretty much replaced by bitcoin URI links)
+ moved the icons for the side panel to the top
+ removed the "More" and "Less" buttons and replaced them with a custom "separator hugging icon"

This will appear in the the next production release (0.4.7) and the code I will put into the 0.5.x code too.
These changes were suggested by freemoney a couple of months ago.

jim618

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Yes - a hide would be better.

Mike Hearn

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bitcoinj does not support deleting keys from a wallet deliberately, because keys are tiny and that is a very easy way to accidentally destroy money. You'd have to add it.

I think a better solution is to have a kind of "hide mode" where a key exists in the wallet but is ignored.

TheButterZone

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RIP Mommy

Sounds great, thanks!

jim618

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Hi ButterZone,

Thanks for your post - it is not a stupid question no.

MultiBit will only generate new addresses and private keys when you click on the 'New' button on the Request tab but there is one automatically generated when you create a new wallet which you do not want.

At the moment there is no way to delete addresses - it is a limitation on the UI I am going to fix in the next round of UI tidy up. I am thinking of doing:

1) show the balance on each receiving address/ private key so that you can see which have zero BTC.
2) have a right click / delete that opens a confirmation dialog.
3) on the dialog get the user to type in a couple of randomly generated letters shown on the dialog (as you are deleting private keys that other people may have the address for).

That will enable you to have a wallet with just your single vanity address in.

TheButterZone

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RIP Mommy

Just generated a vanity address, imported it in the clear, securely deleted, then exported to encrypted .key file.

These might be stupid questions, but how do I
1) stop MultiBit from generating new addresses
2) delete the new addresses it generated and their associated private keys that I never used...
... so that the only address I have access to is the vanity one (or any future vanities that I generate)?

(Mac OSX client)

freemoney458

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Hi Grouver,

I did the German translation, so I think I can help.

Both phrases refer to the wallet format. Serialised is the 'old' format, protobuf the new one. It appears as information if you click on the wallet details triangle.
For the German translation, I translated serialised literally into German ('serialisiert'), and regarding protobuf I translated it 'protobuf' because it is a name.

Cheers, freemoney458

jim618

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Thanks Grouver.

For the 'approved' label I think crowdin.net have that for when there are larger teams (or perhaps someone managing a team in a company). I have given you 'proofreader' rights so you can go in and approve everything in Dutch now.

I think 'serialised' and 'protobuf' are probably best left as proper nouns/ import words and not translated. They are mentioned on the UI and in the help for if someone uses different versions of MultiBit. They refer to the format the wallets are stored in. I have written up some help for it here:

http://multibit.org/v0.5/help_walletFormats.html

As the help is just in English that is another good reason just to leave these phrases unlocalised.

I will pick up your localisation work in the next release.

Thanks for your efforts.

Jim

Grouver (BtcBalance)

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The translation for dutch is almost completed. (not yet approved though, when is it gonna get approved?)
Though, I can't figure out what the following words should be translated into since i don't know what it means or what it is.

-serialised
-protobuf

jim618

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private keys recovered
In the end Scarecrow Magick managed to recover all but 0.03 BTC by recovering the private key from his wallet directly.

Checking the code, writing the protobuf wallets now uses a "write to temp file, rename, delete old" technique so this problem should not occur in any recent code.

local caching of blocks
On another note, a while ago I experimented with simply caching the blocks as they come down the wire into a directory on your machine. Nothing fancy. I am going to put it into the 0.5.x codebase with it being switched on with a property in the multibit.properties file. It gives people a way to trade off disk space (currently 3.1 GB) for faster block replay. It works but it is not finished yet.

I have a machine that sustains 6 MB/s reads from disk and it gives me 200/ 100/ 50 blocks per second for early blocks / 2011 blocks / more recent blocks. A full block replay takes about 20 minutes. A modern desktop machine should give 50 MB/s and an SSD ten times that (though no doubt something else will be rate limiting for SSD).

To cache the blocks is not really the "right" way to manage the blockchain for an SPV client. It will be far better to have a server side bloom filter. I am going to put it in anyway as it will help us cope with the blockchain in the meantime.

ScarecrowMagick

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It could not open the wallet after upgrade to 0.4.6

The error message is "Could not load the wallet file"" The error message was "java.io.EOFException null"

I have sent you the log file.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Scarecrow

ScarecrowMagick

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Ok - thanks. I'll upgrade and test now.

Scarecrow

jim618

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Hi ScarecrowMagick,

Version 0.3.5 is a couple of months old now so definitely download the latest version from multibit.org (version 0.4.6) and try that out first.

If the problem persists PM me the log files (in the multibit/log directory) and I will have a look.

ScarecrowMagick

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Multibit will not open my wallet. It reports the error is null. How can I get my 0.7116 bitcoin out?

Forgot to mention I am using MultiBit 0.3.5 on Ubuntu 12.04, sorry.

jim618

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For Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion users.

Currently the MultiBit DMG file is not signed with an Apple Developer key. When you download the DMG file and try to open it you get the rather abrupt error message:
"MultiBit-[version number]” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.

I have written up the fix, which is to change the default security settings, and updated the MultiBit help accordingly.

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