OMG did I just loose $4000? electrum not working on mac! - page 2.

steakpie13

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Quote from: Bitcoin Seller on December 28, 2014, 02:06:54 AM

Quote from: steakpie13 on December 28, 2014, 12:39:16 AM

http://i.gyazo.com/0bad1a717bb7160c54e97391a1d6244d.png

I just upgraded my OSx to 10.10.2 from 10.9 which was mavericks.

That is the error I see now, I don't know what to do now?

please help theres a lot of money there...

Thank you.

Why are you afraid mate , just put back the seed , tell me that you have it tho Shocked

Yes It will restore all your coin unless you imported new adresses to the Electrum wallet then It won't import coins of those new adresses
Otherwise I don't think there is other solutions if you didn't take any backups of Private keys or wallet file .

man i don't have bacon qt an i'm scared to install it since it will overwrite it, please read my post above..

i have the see but how does anyone import addresses?

i only used the RECEIVE addresses that were mentioned inside the electrum wallet..
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Quote from: Candystripes on December 28, 2014, 02:10:58 AM

Or just use the wallet key tool and convert it to a .key or .wallet file, and use Multibit temporarily.

Where can I get such a converter?

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Or just use the wallet key tool and convert it to a .key or .wallet file, and use Multibit temporarily.

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Quote from: steakpie13 on December 28, 2014, 12:39:16 AM

I just upgraded my OSx to 10.10.2 from 10.9 which was mavericks.

That is the error I see now, I don't know what to do now?

please help theres a lot of money there...

Thank you.

Why are you afraid mate , just put back the seed , tell me that you have it tho Shocked

Yes It will restore all your coin unless you imported new adresses to the Electrum wallet then It won't import coins of those new adresses
Otherwise I don't think there is other solutions if you didn't take any backups of Private keys or wallet file .

AGD

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You can use Bitcoin-QT. Start it, then close it (Best is when you do it offline. Search for --> offline wallet)
Replace the wallet.dat with your backup
Start Bitcoin-QT again
Start Console
Dump your PrivKeys and
Close Bitcoin-QT
Start Elektrum
Import PrivKeys

Since you dumped your PrivKeys (unsecure) and Elektrum will not provide seeds for imported PrivKeys you'll be more safe sending the BTC to a new Elektrum wallet with seed for a better recovery.

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steakpie13

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hi sorry for the bad post let me edit this

okay electrum doesn't have separeate location for wallet.dat

i think its the same as qt client

in appsupport/bitcoin

so wouldn't installing qt client over write to replace the thing or folder and eventually waller.dat file?

any OS X users?

if you are not on yosemite 10.10 yet, can you please tell me if there is any separate electrum folder in

library/applicatiocaches/bitcoin folder?

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Quote from: steakpie13 on December 28, 2014, 01:47:50 AM

Quote from: ilovelittleboys on December 28, 2014, 01:40:47 AM

Do you have your seed with you? This is 12 letters long and you should have either memorized it or written it down somewhere. Even if you don't have it, it should still be possible to recover your wallet as long as the files weren't overwritten but it might not be easy.

EDIT: Perhaps you can try downloading Electrum Portable, running it, and then replacing the wallet.dat it creates with your copy of wallet.dat?

I have the see
i screens hotted it

but it was saved in JULY 2014

but it was for the same wallet i used, the electrum one...will it work? will it restore all coins ir will it only replace coins that were there inside at that time?

BTw, the electrum on mac is really bad, it saves in /library/appicationsupport/bitcoin

folder - i mean the wallet.dat one...

so I am even scared to download or install other BTc clients right now...because like I know qt client also does it on the same location\

OS X users, can you please confirm this is true?
because i could not find any electrum folder in library/appicationsupport

only found biotic folder with wallet.dat

which is 5.39gb big

can electrum application folder be so big? i sure hope yes Cry

otherwise this might just be the files from qt client i installed few months ago...

The seed is deterministic (contains all the information needed to generate all current and future addresses) and never changes for a single wallet, so it should work. As long as it's the same wallet, then all your coins should be there.

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Quote from: ilovelittleboys on December 28, 2014, 01:40:47 AM

Do you have your seed with you? This is 12 letters long and you should have either memorized it or written it down somewhere. Even if you don't have it, it should still be possible to recover your wallet as long as the files weren't overwritten but it might not be easy.

EDIT: Perhaps you can try downloading Electrum Portable, running it, and then replacing the wallet.dat it creates with your copy of wallet.dat?

I have the seed
i screenshotted it

but it was saved in JULY 2014

but it was for the same wallet i used, the electrum one...will it work? will it restore all coins ir will it only replace coins that were there inside at that time?

BTw, the electrum on mac is really bad, it saves in /library/appicationsupport/bitcoin

folder - i mean the wallet.dat one...

so I am even scared to download or install other BTc clients right now...because like I know qt client also does it on the same location\

OS X users, can you please confirm this is true?
because i could not find any electrum folder in library/appicationsupport

only found biotic folder with wallet.dat

which is 5.39gb big

can electrum application folder be so big? i sure hope yes Cry

otherwise this might just be the files from qt client i installed few months ago...

ilovelittleboys

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Do you have your seed with you? This is 12 letters long and you should have either memorized it or written it down somewhere. Even if you don't have it, it should still be possible to recover your wallet as long as the files weren't overwritten but it might not be easy.

EDIT: Perhaps you can try downloading Electrum Portable, running it, and then replacing the wallet.dat it creates with your copy of wallet.dat?

EDIT 2: Not sure if Electrum Portable has an "import" feature but if it does then that could work also.

steakpie13

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Quote from: cbeast on December 28, 2014, 01:06:08 AM

I hope you made a backup and wrote down the seed before loading that much money on it. If so, then take a deep breath, you'll be fine.

Hi i have the wallet.dat file on this mac,i found it in application support.
How do i load it inside other wallet?

i can't use qt bitcoin client because its 20gb like it says for download at least...atm i just want to know how to 'know' that i still have the coins...
can't wait for 20 gb on my darn slow connection...

or is it that if i import this wallet.dat inside bitcoin qt it ill show up my coins without even syncing?

any other way to load this wallet.dat and know immediately the balance inside without waiting for sync?

any other client that can use this and help immediately?

BTW, I DID NOT DO A FRESH INSTALL OF YOSEMITE, IT WAS ON MAVERICKSK ITSELF SO ALL MY FILES ARE INTACT....which means the wallet.dat file should work right?
since its the same thing as before don't you think?

please help me asap, I'm really scared Sad

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Quote from: cbeast on December 28, 2014, 01:06:08 AM

I hope you made a backup and wrote down the seed before loading that much money on it. If so, then take a deep breath, you'll be fine.

If not, OUCH! Cry

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Quote from: steakpie13 on December 28, 2014, 12:39:16 AM

I just upgraded my OSx to 10.10.2 from 10.9 which was mavericks.

That is the error I see now, I don't know what to do now?

please help theres a lot of money there...

Thank you.

Did you make backup?

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

I hope you made a backup and wrote down the seed before loading that much money on it. If so, then take a deep breath, you'll be fine.

steakpie13

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http://i.gyazo.com/0bad1a717bb7160c54e97391a1d6244d.png

I just upgraded my OSx to 10.10.2 from 10.9 which was mavericks.

That is the error I see now, I don't know what to do now?

please help theres a lot of money there...

Thank you.

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