[REQUESTS] Minimal Electrum builds for Windows - page 5.

IveBeenBit

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Quote from: flatfly on December 16, 2012, 05:22:10 AM

This is not normal - It is probably due to an old electrum.dat wallet file lying around on your hard disk from the old days, and pointing to a non-existing server... To fix the issue, find that file (in your Application Data folder, not sure about the exact path on Win7 x64), rename it to something else, and start Electrum again. It should then prompt you to create a new wallet (or restore an existing one from seed.)

Let me know how that goes so I can help you further if needed.

You were right. I did find an old electrum.dat file. The path, BTW is C:\Users\Windows Username\AppData\Local\Electrum\electrum.dat

It's probably leftover from when I tried Electrum back in August, but I honestly did not give it a fair shot back then.

I opened the file in Wordpad just to see what was in it. I see about 5 Bitcoin addresses. Does electrum.dat store the private keys to those addresses also? Where are the private keys stored?

I'm basically trying to make sure I keep my bitcoins safe and need to know what files to make encrypted backups of. I plan on importing my private keys that I already have from the QT client into my Electrum wallet.

Thanks for the help so far!

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Quote from: IveBeenBit on December 16, 2012, 03:29:32 AM

I just downloaded and tried using your build from here: http://dre.redmartian.org/elecwin.htm

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

Anyways, I installed it, but it looks like the .exe is all there is to it. Is that right? Because when I double click electrum1.5.6-flatfly.exe, then it starts up.

The above is normal: I've spent a lot of time to make my build totally self-contained so it doesn't require "installing", and does not touch the Windows system files in any way.

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I was also surprised that it did not do any setup, did not shaw a wallet seed or any of that. Is that normal?

Finally, it doesn't connect to anything. It just sits there saying "trying to connect" on the bottom.

Any idea where I should start trying to trouble shoot this?

This is not normal - It is probably due to an old electrum.dat wallet file lying around on your hard disk from the old days, and pointing to a non-existing server... To fix the issue, find that file (in your Application Data folder, not sure about the exact path on Win7 x64), rename it to something else, and start Electrum again. It should then prompt you to create a new wallet (or restore an existing one from seed.)

Let me know how that goes so I can help you further if needed.

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Or should I just use the official Electrum client?

You could give it a try, but I think it will exhibit the same behavior, as we're using the same codebase.

IveBeenBit

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I just downloaded and tried using your build from here: http://dre.redmartian.org/elecwin.htm

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

Anyways, I installed it, but it looks like the .exe is all there is to it. Is that right? Because when I double click electrum1.5.6-flatfly.exe, then it starts up.

I was also surprised that it did not do any setup, did not shaw a wallet seed or any of that. Is that normal?

Finally, it doesn't connect to anything. It just sits there saying "trying to connect" on the bottom.

Any idea where I should start trying to trouble shoot this? Or should I just use the official Electrum client?

flatfly

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Quote from: dw_bc on December 05, 2012, 11:26:47 AM

I using your build, but I changed GUI to Gtk.

Now, it now starts Gui mode.

Only when I run + SHIFT to select to GUI mode qt or lite.

How Can I fix to qt or lite? Via Regedit?

Good Work, and Thanks!

Hi, thanks for trying my build

Indeed, some GUIs (gtk and text) are not supported in my build.
Regedit is not necessary to fix the issue you have, as Electrum doesn't save anything
to the Windows registry. The best way to solve the issue is to issue the following command
from the console:

electrum set gui "qt"

This will set the default GUI back to Qt (classic).

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I using your build, but I changed GUI to Gtk.

Now, it now starts Gui mode.

Only when I run + SHIFT to select to GUI mode qt or lite.

How Can I fix to qt or lite? Via Regedit?

Good Work, and Thanks!

flatfly

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Hi slush,

Thanks for trying the new build!

Yes the qr bugs are known issues, but the good news is that thomasv just fixed them on the github master! What other bugs have you noticed in 1.5.4? If there are too many, I'll consider making a 1.5.3 build available as well until they're fixed.

About the zbar package, I usually try to keep my builds as lean as possible, but I'll see if I can include that (+ any required dependencies) in my main build without impacting the download size too much.

Also, as I often get requests for custom builds, and the time I can currently devote to this is quite limited, I usually give priority to donators

slush

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Hm, looks like there are more bugs in 1.5.4 in general. 1.5.3 works for me nicely, too bad that Windows builds are not 1.5.3 :-(.

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flatfly, I just tested latest 1.5.4 build. Not displaying QR codes is known issue (seed, address on Receive tab)?

Btw any chance to pack Electrum with zbar package, which is available for Windows as well? It adds QR scanning features to Send dialog...

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Quote from: minimalB on November 16, 2012, 09:16:57 AM

This version seems to work great and fast!

Donation sent!

BTW: I have only one server available (electrum.bysh.me). Is this normal?

Thanks!

I see ecdsa.org online as well now, and I believe more servers will upgrade very soon.

ThomasV

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Quote from: minimalB on November 16, 2012, 09:16:57 AM

This version seems to work great and fast!

Donation sent!

BTW: I have only one server available (electrum.bysh.me). Is this normal?

thanks for the support!

New clients filter out all the old servers since the protocol has changed. For the moment there are only two servers running the new protocol:
electrum.bysh.me and ecdsa.org

minimalB

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This version seems to work great and fast!

Donation sent!

BTW: I have only one server available (electrum.bysh.me). Is this normal?

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Windows build for version 1.4 is available!

No visible changes, but there's an important fix to the
wallet recovery procedure when connecting to upgraded servers.

You can upgrade your client without losing any of your existing settings.

ThomasV

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thanks for the Windows build.

Note that you can include an incomplete headers file; it will still save some download time.
The length of the file should be a multiple of 80

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Quote from: jim618 on November 09, 2012, 07:17:32 PM

VirusTotal.com recently bumped up their max file size from 20MB to 32MB so you might be able to squeeze it in.

:-)

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the heads up!

Will try it out for my next build.

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VirusTotal.com recently bumped up their max file size from 20MB to 32MB so you might be able to squeeze it in.

:-)

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A fresh, SPV-enabled build of Electrum 1.3 is ready!
As usual, download links and SHA1 hash are available at my download page.

Important:

- Please note that only 2 servers support SPV currently:
   bysh.me and ecdsa.org. The other 6 servers should upgrade shortly.

- Allow a few (up to 10) minutes for initial download of blockchain headers.
Confirmation icons will not show up until this has completed.

- I didn't include the header file inside my package because it would have prevented
  it from being scanned by VirusTotal (which has a 20MB upper limit)... I'll see if I can
  find another way to add it.

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Quote from: minimalB on November 01, 2012, 07:45:53 PM

v1.2 is not working for me on XP sp3.

It opens up and shows transactions, but after few clicks on tabs I get (not responding) string in titlebar and game over.

If it helps: icons are not displayed (clock (for 1-6 confirmations) and check-mark icon) and there is no red / black color for positive and negative transactions.

Also, python.exe process goes to 90-100%.

Hmmm... This actually looks somewhat similar to the performance issue I also encountered (once) with the block header download...

When you get the "(not responding)" message in the title bar, try to let it run anyway and it should
resolve itself within 10 minutes or so. You can also launch Electrum from the console to get more detailed progress messages.

In the meantime, I have reverted my download page to the previous (1.1) version until I can further investigate. Thanks for reporting this issue.

[EDIT] Seems that the SPV implementation in 1.2 must be re-worked anyway, due to a bug that has just been discovered. (see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1312652)

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v1.2 is not working for me on XP sp3.

It opens up and shows transactions, but after few clicks on tabs I get (not responding) string in titlebar and game over.

If it helps: icons are not displayed (clock (for 1-6 confirmations) and check-mark icon) and there is no red / black color for positive and negative transactions.

Also, python.exe process goes to 90-100%.

flatfly

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Windows compact build for Version 1.2 is now available! Early testing hasn't revealed any major issues.

Note that this is the first build that is SPV-enabled - SPV will be automatically and transparently used when connecting to SPV-compliant servers (this can be verified through the console.)

Link: More info on the SPV protocol

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Thanks for the little tip yesterday, anonymous donator

Come forward if you'd like a little mention on my download page!

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