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Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 05:52:45 PM

Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 05:46:40 PM

Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 05:26:16 PM

Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 04:11:06 PM

Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 04:09:41 PM

2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

Apart from labels and useless data like transactions, how is it different?

Some of alts have a bit of difference, like a LTC address starts with L, not 1.

Exactly my point: a wallet doesn't contain the leading byte

And the private key will stay the same?

Yes

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Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 05:46:40 PM

Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 05:26:16 PM

Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 04:11:06 PM

Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 04:09:41 PM

2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

Apart from labels and useless data like transactions, how is it different?

Some of alts have a bit of difference, like a LTC address starts with L, not 1.

Exactly my point: a wallet doesn't contain the leading byte

And the private key will stay the same?

jackjack

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Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 05:26:16 PM

Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 04:11:06 PM

Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 04:09:41 PM

2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

Apart from labels and useless data like transactions, how is it different?

Some of alts have a bit of difference, like a LTC address starts with L, not 1.

Exactly my point: a wallet doesn't contain the leading byte

DarkHyudrA

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Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 04:11:06 PM

Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 04:09:41 PM

2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

Apart from labels and useless data like transactions, how is it different?

Some of alts have a bit of difference, like a LTC address starts with L, not 1.

jackjack

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Not the last time I checked with Bitcoin (0.8.2 I think)
I don't know for altcoins

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Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 05:01:08 PM

You won't lose anything
The point of -rescan is to sync all the incoming bitcoins

great!

but teorically that rescan is not done when the client starts?

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You won't lose anything
The point of -rescan is to sync all the incoming bitcoins

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Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 04:09:41 PM

2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

Okay, yes, there's the info of the wallet and all the addresses... but that's no info about movements? i mean, if i copy my wallet.dat, i use it on a computer where i get synced some incoming bitcoins, and later i use an older wallet.dat file without those bitcoins... i could lose it or it could happens something "bad"? or it just can get my real-time BTC wallet by syncing the client?

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Quote from: DarkHyudrA on July 23, 2013, 04:09:41 PM

2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

Apart from labels and useless data like transactions, how is it different?

DarkHyudrA

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2 Things:

First, wallet.dat is where you store personal info, mostly your private keys. A wallet.dat of BTC is different from a LTC wallet.dat, watch out!

Second, a simple rescan on a already synced computer(by synced means that it have the whole blockchain) should do the trick.

jackjack

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I'm not sure, give it a try

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Quote from: jackjack on July 23, 2013, 02:57:02 PM

Copy/paste them wherever and whenever you want.
Just don't forget to bitcoin-qt -rescan

ahm that Rescan must be done always? so it maybe would be better to syncronize all the wallets? Undecided

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Copy/paste them wherever and whenever you want.
Just don't forget to bitcoin-qt -rescan

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Nobody knows? Huh

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Hi dudes.

I've got some computers... and i want to see my wallets (bitcoin, litecoin, feathercoin, etc...) on all those computers.

So, i've to sync all the wallet.dat files (dropbox or with a pendrive), or i can just copy and paste them and connect wherever whenever i want??

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