Updating portable without loosing my BTC ??

kolloh

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Quote from: ranochigo on January 27, 2017, 05:39:56 AM

Are you using the one with -portable.exe behind? For example: electrum-2.7.18-portable.exe. A folder called electrum_data will be created in the same folder. All the block-headers are in there. You can specify another directory for the wallet though.

If you're using the standalone executable, the behavior would be that data will be stored in the %appdata%.

Yeah, I was using the standalone executable and not the "portable" version. Sorry didn't realize they had both the standalone and the portable versions.

Portables are meant to store everything in the local folder so that it is easily ran from a USB drive or whatever so it makes sense that it would store the information within the electrum_data folder in the same folder as the executable.

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Quote from: kolloh on January 25, 2017, 08:16:02 AM

I don't believe that is accurate. I use the portable version and it is still using the data in my user directory. Perhaps it has the option to use both, depending on where it can locate the data?

Are you using the one with -portable.exe behind? For example: electrum-2.7.18-portable.exe. A folder called electrum_data will be created in the same folder. All the block-headers are in there. You can specify another directory for the wallet though.

If you're using the standalone executable, the behavior would be that data will be stored in the %appdata%.

kolloh

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Quote from: ranochigo on January 24, 2017, 11:48:45 PM

Quote from: kolloh on January 24, 2017, 01:55:49 PM

You shouldn't need to do anything special to upgrade to a new Portable version. Electrum reads the wallets/configurations/etc from your User directory folder.

For example, on recent versions of Windows, it stores the data in the following folder

Code:

Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/Electrum

and for Mac/Linux it will be in

Code:

~/.electrum

Just download the new version and you shouldn't have an issue.

Portable versions has a different behavior as compared to executable and installer. Portable versions are configured to search for the data directory within the folder the portable version is in. This is what differentiating itself from other versions.

If you opened the client in F:\, the wallet directory will be F:\electrum_data.

I don't believe that is accurate. I use the portable version and it is still using the data in my user directory. Perhaps it has the option to use both, depending on where it can locate the data?

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Quote from: kolloh on January 24, 2017, 01:55:49 PM

You shouldn't need to do anything special to upgrade to a new Portable version. Electrum reads the wallets/configurations/etc from your User directory folder.

For example, on recent versions of Windows, it stores the data in the following folder

Code:

Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/Electrum

and for Mac/Linux it will be in

Code:

~/.electrum

Just download the new version and you shouldn't have an issue.

Portable versions has a different behavior as compared to executable and installer. Portable versions are configured to search for the data directory within the folder the portable version is in. This is what differentiating itself from other versions.

If you opened the client in F:\, the wallet directory will be F:\electrum_data.

kolloh

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You shouldn't need to do anything special to upgrade to a new Portable version. Electrum reads the wallets/configurations/etc from your User directory folder.

For example, on recent versions of Windows, it stores the data in the following folder

Code:

Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/Electrum

and for Mac/Linux it will be in

Code:

~/.electrum

Just download the new version and you shouldn't have an issue.

ranochigo

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The rule of the thumb is to always backup the seeds first. If not, you should backup the wallet file first.

For portable version, you just have to download and run Electrum in the same directory. Portable versions will always search for Electrum_data folder.

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Hello,

im using a old Version of electrum portable.
Now i try to update to the latest portable build.

How can i do this without loosing my BTC and my settings??

I hope anyone can write me a little step by step guide.
Thank you

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