Topic: restore/recover backed up wallet (Read 495 times)
You may delete all files except your wallet and the blockchain will be downloaded again
Thanks fellas,
solved but I've another question, how can I recover history? I upgraded the btc client to 0.8.5 version and I've blk000x.dat... files and blkindex in old version, I copied it into new version but that won't work
solved but I've another question, how can I recover history? I upgraded the btc client to 0.8.5 version and I've blk000x.dat... files and blkindex in old version, I copied it into new version but that won't work
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory
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Linux
By default Bitcoin will put its data here:
You need to do a "ls -a" to see directories that start with a dot.
If that's not it, you can do a search like this:
By default Bitcoin will put its data here:
Code:
~/.bitcoin/
You need to do a "ls -a" to see directories that start with a dot.
If that's not it, you can do a search like this:
Code:
find / -name wallet.dat -print 2>/dev/null
This depends entirely on what Bitcoin client you're using. If it's Bitcoin-Qt, then the wallet file is indeed named wallet.dat. You can recover it by reinstalling Bitcoin-Qt (which it sounds like you may have already done), and replacing your newly-installed wallet.dat with the wallet.dat from your backup. If it's a different client, the file name (and possibly the process to recover it) will be different.
I use linux my wallet was in chown-ed folder but as I install second distro I eventually erase filesystem parititon of the old distro. After that my wallet (which is in another parition which was left there unchanged -no formatting) has different adress, cleared history, no coins.. but fortunately I backed it up before. So my question is how to restore the old wallet?? I read somwhere that I've to named it wallet.dat and place it somewhere in bitcoin folder but where??
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