Running bitcoin core 16.0.1 looking to upgrade to 16.0.3 on a mac

philipma1957

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 21, 2018, 08:43:55 AM

Quote from: aleksej996 on September 21, 2018, 08:40:44 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on September 21, 2018, 08:35:39 AM

I download 16.0.3

You had a typo there.

I am not sure why you need to empty your wallet and clone your hdd.
You can just install the new version and everything should work just like it did before.

Dude I always fear loss of info.

So I did a screenshot of my choices and I simply can not recall what option to pick

keep both bitcoin cores or replace 16.0.1 with 16.0.3

I don't see any reasonable reasons to keep older version, just replace it with newest version. Even if you're paranoid, verify the validity of the installation and backup wallet.dat should be sufficient.

Also, there's no report that wallet.dat, blockchain or chainstate corrupted/missing after upgrade 0.16.3

thanks I will do replace option.

and it worked fine .

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: aleksej996 on September 21, 2018, 08:40:44 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on September 21, 2018, 08:35:39 AM

I download 16.0.3

You had a typo there.

I am not sure why you need to empty your wallet and clone your hdd.
You can just install the new version and everything should work just like it did before.

Dude I always fear loss of info.

So I did a screenshot of my choices and I simply can not recall what option to pick

keep both bitcoin cores or replace 16.0.1 with 16.0.3

AdolfinWolf

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Why would you empty your wallet? What exactly does that mean?

You create a new wallet.dat and thus transfer all your funds over to that wallet for every new version of Bitcoin Core?

If there was no vulnerability regarding the accessing of funds, i don't really see a reason to do that. (Except if you're upgrading from a version that's >16.0 ?)

aleksej996

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 21, 2018, 08:35:39 AM

I download 16.0.3

You had a typo there.

I am not sure why you need to empty your wallet and clone your hdd.
You can just install the new version and everything should work just like it did before.

philipma1957

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Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

I download 16.0.3

I empty my wallet down to 0.00009644 btc

I have an offline clone of the hdd

and I am about to do this.

Any thing sound wrong about procedure above?

As I am getting this choice.

I am not looking to kill old info and I can't recall what to do.

Topic: Running bitcoin core 16.0.1 looking to upgrade to 16.0.3 on a mac (Read 127 times)