the 0.8.8.6 wallet files should open on 0.9
but if not
u can run the bitmonerod from 0.9, and run the wallet from 0.8.8.7 ( i think ). thats the beauty of the software architecture of monero.
Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 776. (Read 4671575 times)
October 15, 2015, 08:04:07 PM
October 15, 2015, 07:58:19 PM
i've mentioned this before but i've got old deprecated wallets that crash 0.8.8.6 when i load them. it asks for my language of choice for the words then crashes. i tried the new 0.9 version and got it sync'd from scratch. but it still crashes at the same step, after asking what language i would like for my words. just letting you devs know. is there an old version of the software that still works that i could use to load this wallets and move the funds? and if so, where could i get that from?
- much appreciated
- much appreciated
Hello from 2+2
Although I have never used it for problems, I hear going on IRC is helpful. Have you tried #monero or #monero-dev ?
October 15, 2015, 07:51:04 PM
now u can run jwinterms wallet. edit the conf file to local host or whatever and boom! monero gui.
I don't need a gui. What I need is a way to access the wallets I created with 0.8.8.6 when I run the windows beta. Is that what you are trying to say with your fancy tech talk? Remember the only computer course I took used punch cards
October 15, 2015, 07:44:15 PM
i've mentioned this before but i've got old deprecated wallets that crash 0.8.8.6 when i load them. it asks for my language of choice for the words then crashes. i tried the new 0.9 version and got it sync'd from scratch. but it still crashes at the same step, after asking what language i would like for my words. just letting you devs know. is there an old version of the software that still works that i could use to load this wallets and move the funds? and if so, where could i get that from?
- much appreciated
- much appreciated
October 15, 2015, 07:34:25 PM
now u can run jwinterms wallet. edit the conf file to local host or whatever and boom! monero gui.
October 15, 2015, 07:06:12 PM
My windows 0.9 beta has synced and it is using less memory than google chrome
After I started I shut down my miner which uses both cores of my dual core pentium and therefore maxes it out. I then noticed while syncing that every 200 blocks there is an operation that maxes out my cpu for a couple of seconds.
I just now opened simple wallet and entered the wallet file name of a wallet that is currently empty. The message I received was.....
"The Wallet doesn't exist, generating a new one
password:"
When I first open simplewallet it notes the version # as v0.8.8.7-7792255
When I typed "exit" in the daemon I received more info than the times I tried to exit when the daemon hadn't fully synced but still it didn't exit. I retyped "exit" and it very quickly shut down. I started the daemon up again which only took a few seconds.
After I started I shut down my miner which uses both cores of my dual core pentium and therefore maxes it out. I then noticed while syncing that every 200 blocks there is an operation that maxes out my cpu for a couple of seconds.
I just now opened simple wallet and entered the wallet file name of a wallet that is currently empty. The message I received was.....
"The Wallet doesn't exist, generating a new one
password:"
When I first open simplewallet it notes the version # as v0.8.8.7-7792255
When I typed "exit" in the daemon I received more info than the times I tried to exit when the daemon hadn't fully synced but still it didn't exit. I retyped "exit" and it very quickly shut down. I started the daemon up again which only took a few seconds.
October 15, 2015, 06:44:23 AM
papa_lazzarou, I took your advice and tried exiting. Like last time I typed exit and received the message "[node] Stop signal sent" along with a time stamp immediately followed by a message in green "Stop signal sent" after which nothing has happened for an hour. My Task Manager shows no activity for bitmonerod, no cpu or disk activity and memory is at 14.1 MB. I have noted the last block synced and am now going to close it via the X and receiving the "exiting without saving message" in red. At least this time I still have the folder with 0.9 in it. The log folder is empty 
Someone reported that he typed 'exit' again after the first one and it worked.Thank you
I just restarted the daemon, let's see what happens.
October 15, 2015, 06:40:16 AM
papa_lazzarou, I took your advice and tried exiting. Like last time I typed exit and received the message "[node] Stop signal sent" along with a time stamp immediately followed by a message in green "Stop signal sent" after which nothing has happened for an hour. My Task Manager shows no activity for bitmonerod, no cpu or disk activity and memory is at 14.1 MB. I have noted the last block synced and am now going to close it via the X and receiving the "exiting without saving message" in red. At least this time I still have the folder with 0.9 in it. The log folder is empty
Someone reported that he typed 'exit' again after the first one and it worked. October 15, 2015, 06:29:25 AM
papa_lazzarou, I took your advice and tried exiting. Like last time I typed exit and received the message "[node] Stop signal sent" along with a time stamp immediately followed by a message in green "Stop signal sent" after which nothing has happened for an hour. My Task Manager shows no activity for bitmonerod, no cpu or disk activity and memory is at 14.1 MB. I have noted the last block synced and am now going to close it via the X and receiving the "exiting without saving message" in red. At least this time I still have the folder with 0.9 in it. The log folder is empty
October 15, 2015, 05:13:22 AM
OK I'm trying the windows 0.9 beta again. I once again created a new folder for it as the last one disappeared after I closed the daemon without exiting as it hung up when I tried to exit after the syncing hung up. I am currently syncing the blockchain from scratch as I did the first time and this time it started from ~ block 376206 so maybe it was stored somewhere?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
Blockchain is stored in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%. You definitely aren't syncing from scratch if it started from 376206.
Yes to your last two questions (unless there's some compatibility issue that I don't know about, but why not just use the matching 0.9 simplewallet?).
Thank you luigi,
I let it run while sleeping and now I'm on block 307986
and it's syncing almost as slowly as 0.8.8.6 I'm no longer getting all the white words including "blob" speeding by but instead it's mostly the yellow lettering I'm used to when syncing with the white lettering being NOTIFY_REQUEST_GET_OBJECTS................
Hope you are enjoying the technical description
As far as simplewallet I meant using simplewallet in 0.9 and using the name and password that was set up in 0.8.8.6
Try to exit safely and start again. I think it could have something to do with the database file resizing, but i'm not sure.
I'm not aware of any compatibility issues with simplewallet and the previous version generated wallets.
~ ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SAFE COPY OF YOUR .keys FILE ~
October 15, 2015, 05:04:58 AM
Given this projects' goals, people using it may assume that if it's Monero, its anonymity is not in question. Actually, based on your own words (in bold in the quoted material above) maybe the slogan on the MyMonero front page very well shouldn't be "Send and receive Monero safely and securely, anywhere and any time", and should, instead, be a warning that makes an effort to explain to people that their view keys are being sent to the server, that they're using a JavaScript-based wallet that is never going to be safe, and that this is only a stopgap solution. That would seem to better fit the principles of this project.
It's one of those situations where we can't qualify every statement that is made.
It's like saying that we should change the Monero slogan from "secure, private, untraceable" to "secure (as long as you don't leak your private keys and no exploit or bug exists which lets someone steal your funds), private (as long as you're using i2p, coming soon, and the counterparties you deal with don't reveal your details), untraceable (as long as everyone is using mixin >0 and no systematic reveal of inputs leaks the real one)"...which is not quite as catchy;)
It's definitely not quite as catchy, I'm just arguing that it's a special case where being upfront and transparent with people could be more important than being catchy.
I think a FAQ or something somewhere on the site that explains the risks of a web wallet is a pretty reasonable approach, with maybe a simple link on the home page. That is just my unsolicited input, as I have no role in MyMonero.
October 15, 2015, 04:49:26 AM
OK I'm trying the windows 0.9 beta again. I once again created a new folder for it as the last one disappeared after I closed the daemon without exiting as it hung up when I tried to exit after the syncing hung up. I am currently syncing the blockchain from scratch as I did the first time and this time it started from ~ block 376206 so maybe it was stored somewhere?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
Blockchain is stored in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%. You definitely aren't syncing from scratch if it started from 376206.
Yes to your last two questions (unless there's some compatibility issue that I don't know about, but why not just use the matching 0.9 simplewallet?).
Thank you luigi,
I let it run while sleeping and now I'm on block 307986
and it's syncing almost as slowly as 0.8.8.6 I'm no longer getting all the white words including "blob" speeding by but instead it's mostly the yellow lettering I'm used to when syncing with the white lettering being NOTIFY_REQUEST_GET_OBJECTS................
Hope you are enjoying the technical description
As far as simplewallet I meant using simplewallet in 0.9 and using the name and password that was set up in 0.8.8.6
October 14, 2015, 09:41:13 PM
Given this projects' goals, people using it may assume that if it's Monero, its anonymity is not in question. Actually, based on your own words (in bold in the quoted material above) maybe the slogan on the MyMonero front page very well shouldn't be "Send and receive Monero safely and securely, anywhere and any time", and should, instead, be a warning that makes an effort to explain to people that their view keys are being sent to the server, that they're using a JavaScript-based wallet that is never going to be safe, and that this is only a stopgap solution. That would seem to better fit the principles of this project.
It's one of those situations where we can't qualify every statement that is made.
It's like saying that we should change the Monero slogan from "secure, private, untraceable" to "secure (as long as you don't leak your private keys and no exploit or bug exists which lets someone steal your funds), private (as long as you're using i2p, coming soon, and the counterparties you deal with don't reveal your details), untraceable (as long as everyone is using mixin >0 and no systematic reveal of inputs leaks the real one)"...which is not quite as catchy;)
It's definitely not quite as catchy, I'm just arguing that it's a special case where being upfront and transparent with people could be more important than being catchy.
October 14, 2015, 07:39:33 PM
OK I'm trying the windows 0.9 beta again. I once again created a new folder for it as the last one disappeared after I closed the daemon without exiting as it hung up when I tried to exit after the syncing hung up. I am currently syncing the blockchain from scratch as I did the first time and this time it started from ~ block 376206 so maybe it was stored somewhere?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
Blockchain is stored in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%. You definitely aren't syncing from scratch if it started from 376206.
Yes to your last two questions (unless there's some compatibility issue that I don't know about, but why not just use the matching 0.9 simplewallet?).
October 14, 2015, 06:46:43 PM
OK I'm trying the windows 0.9 beta again. I once again created a new folder for it as the last one disappeared after I closed the daemon without exiting as it hung up when I tried to exit after the syncing hung up. I am currently syncing the blockchain from scratch as I did the first time and this time it started from ~ block 376206 so maybe it was stored somewhere?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
It seems obvious but I want to check to make sure I don't mess anything up. Once the daemon syncs I can then open any simplewallet I have? And transact with it?
October 14, 2015, 02:14:26 PM
^^^ 
Monero, ask 1 get 2 for free.
Monero, ask 1 get 2 for free.
Thanks for all the help and information!
Will try to install the beta version tomorrow
October 14, 2015, 01:32:26 PM
cryptonewb: If you used the latest source code (not the 0.8.8.6), your computer still may be slow, but only while it's downloading the blockchain due to lots of writing to the hard drive. But after you've downloaded the blockchain your computer will be fast again. Monero (after the one-time blockchain download catch-up) takes very little system resources. I have my main Monero wallet on a laptop with 2.5GB RAM and it works fast. Hope that helps!
Just curious, what laptop are you running your wallet and everything else on?
October 14, 2015, 12:42:24 PM
cryptonewb: If you used the latest source code (not the 0.8.8.6), your computer still may be slow, but only while it's downloading the blockchain due to lots of writing to the hard drive. But after you've downloaded the blockchain your computer will be fast again. Monero (after the one-time blockchain download catch-up) takes very little system resources. I have my main Monero wallet on a laptop with 2.5GB RAM and it works fast. Hope that helps!
Just curious, what laptop are you running your wallet and everything else on?
October 14, 2015, 11:55:58 AM
cryptonewb: If you used the latest source code (not the 0.8.8.6), your computer still may be slow, but only while it's downloading the blockchain due to lots of writing to the hard drive. But after you've downloaded the blockchain your computer will be fast again. Monero (after the one-time blockchain download catch-up) takes very little system resources. I have my main Monero wallet on a laptop with 2.5GB RAM and it works fast. Hope that helps!
October 14, 2015, 11:55:44 AM
^^^
Monero, ask 1 get 2 for free.
Cool, I'll check it out.
Monero, ask 1 get 2 for free.
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