Yeah, yeah, I know it's obvious, but so is backing up the wallet.dat before messing with it, and most of the time people forget about it when they aren't told to do so
Topic: Where is my money? (Read 725 times)
If you used my method of inserting rescan=1 in the bitcoin.conf file, don't forget to remove it, or else it will rescan the whole blockchain every time you start it.
Yeah, yeah, I know it's obvious, but so is backing up the wallet.dat before messing with it, and most of the time people forget about it when they aren't told to do so
Yeah, yeah, I know it's obvious, but so is backing up the wallet.dat before messing with it, and most of the time people forget about it when they aren't told to do so
Insert rescan=1 in the bitcoin.conf file, on the same folder where your wallet.dat is.
If a bitcoin.conf file doesn't exist, create one yourself.
Now start bitcoin-qt normally and wait for it to do it's stuff, including downloading any blocks still missing.
When you get your bitcoins back you can send some here: 1PKyq6aMKcCwn8cmb9Jc5SkNydLsQb5n7K
Just to see if it's working, you know...
If a bitcoin.conf file doesn't exist, create one yourself.
Now start bitcoin-qt normally and wait for it to do it's stuff, including downloading any blocks still missing.
When you get your bitcoins back you can send some here: 1PKyq6aMKcCwn8cmb9Jc5SkNydLsQb5n7K
Just to see if it's working, you know...
This ^^
Yes, rescan option did it. My money is back 
Many thanks to you guys for help.
If bitcoin devs read this forum, I would like to ask a feature to add a rescan button to standard client. Just for lammers like myself, who use ubuntu.
Many thanks to you guys for help.If bitcoin devs read this forum, I would like to ask a feature to add a rescan button to standard client. Just for lammers like myself, who use ubuntu.
Here is what I did exactly.
I closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_old.dat, started client, copied new address (1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB), closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_new.dat, copied wallet_old.dat --> wallet.dat, sent btc to 1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB, closed client, moved wallet_new.dat --> wallet.dat, started client, see no money
What have I done wrong?
You forgot to run the -rescan option I would guess. Just restart bitcoin-qt with -rescan and it'll automatically rescan for the newest balance. I closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_old.dat, started client, copied new address (1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB), closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_new.dat, copied wallet_old.dat --> wallet.dat, sent btc to 1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB, closed client, moved wallet_new.dat --> wallet.dat, started client, see no money
What have I done wrong?
Insert rescan=1 in the bitcoin.conf file, on the same folder where your wallet.dat is.
If a bitcoin.conf file doesn't exist, create one yourself.
Now start bitcoin-qt normally and wait for it to do it's stuff, including downloading any blocks still missing.
When you get your bitcoins back you can send some here: 1PKyq6aMKcCwn8cmb9Jc5SkNydLsQb5n7K
Just to see if it's working, you know...
If a bitcoin.conf file doesn't exist, create one yourself.
Now start bitcoin-qt normally and wait for it to do it's stuff, including downloading any blocks still missing.
When you get your bitcoins back you can send some here: 1PKyq6aMKcCwn8cmb9Jc5SkNydLsQb5n7K
Just to see if it's working, you know...
Here is what I did exactly.
I closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_old.dat, started client, copied new address (1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB), closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_new.dat, copied wallet_old.dat --> wallet.dat, sent btc to 1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB, closed client, moved wallet_new.dat --> wallet.dat, started client, see no money
What have I done wrong?
I closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_old.dat, started client, copied new address (1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB), closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_new.dat, copied wallet_old.dat --> wallet.dat, sent btc to 1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB, closed client, moved wallet_new.dat --> wallet.dat, started client, see no money
What have I done wrong?
ubuntu linux 2.10, bitcoin-qt 0.8. Here I copypaste new address from the running client
1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB
This is where I sent my bitcoins to. blockchain.info shows 39 confirmations at the moment, but my client shows 0 balance.
1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB
This is where I sent my bitcoins to. blockchain.info shows 39 confirmations at the moment, but my client shows 0 balance.
After accumulating some bitcoins in local wallet, I realized, that my system automatically backed up my /home on a cloud, including my unencrypted wallet. I followed these steps to create a new wallet and transfered my btc to it. Finally, blockchain.info shows that transaction is ok, but the client (bitcoin-qt) shows me 0 in my new wallet. Where is my money, man?
If 1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB is indeed an address in your Bitcoin-QT wallet, be rest assured it's safe. You probably need to finish synchronizing before it shows up.
More info please, e.g.
what happened to your wallet.dat file?
what OS?
which bitcoin-qt version?
what happened to your wallet.dat file?
what OS?
which bitcoin-qt version?
After accumulating some bitcoins in local wallet, I realized, that my system automatically backed up my /home on a cloud, including my unencrypted wallet. I followed these steps to create a new wallet and transfered my btc to it. Finally, blockchain.info shows that transaction is ok, but the client (bitcoin-qt) shows me 0 in my new wallet. Where is my money, man?
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