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Main => Technical Support => Topic started by: pyrocluster on October 03, 2015, 02:53:56 pm

Title: [NOOB QUESTION] How to recover bitshares from my old Mac hard drive?
Post by: pyrocluster on October 03, 2015, 02:53:56 pm: Hello everyone,

need some help here. I don't really know much about crypto.

I bought some BTS earlier this year (or maybe last year, didn't remember correctly) after my friend told me about it. But I completely forgotten about it, and I replace my macbook HDD to SSD a few months back (fresh install OS X on new SSD, but I still keep the old HDD as is).

Can someone guide me to recover the old Bitshares? Please.

Do I need to copy folders and files from the old HDD to my new SSD? or just import the backup key? (currently I run 0.9.3c in my new SSD)
Title: Re: [NOOB QUESTION] How to recover bitshares from my old Mac hard drive?
Post by: Frodo on October 03, 2015, 03:20:31 pm: If you have a backup just import it.

Some members have had problems with old backups. If it says something about invalid password you might have to install 0.5.3 import the backup and then upgrade to the current release.

Alternatively you can copy the BitShares folder with the wallet file, but I don't know where it is stored on OS X.
Title: Re: [NOOB QUESTION] How to recover bitshares from my old Mac hard drive?
Post by: pyrocluster on October 03, 2015, 03:23:25 pm: Quote from: Frodo on October 03, 2015, 03:20:31 pm
Some members have had problems with old backups. If it says something about invalid password you might have to install 0.5.3 import the backup and then upgrade to the current release.

Yup, getting that error. ok will try 0.5.3 now.

Anyone know where to find the wallet file on OS X?
Title: Re: [NOOB QUESTION] How to recover bitshares from my old Mac hard drive?
Post by: testz on October 03, 2015, 03:26:19 pm: Quote from: pyrocluster on October 03, 2015, 03:23:25 pm
Quote from: Frodo on October 03, 2015, 03:20:31 pm
Some members have had problems with old backups. If it says something about invalid password you might have to install 0.5.3 import the backup and then upgrade to the current release.

Yup, getting that error. ok will try 0.5.3 now.

Anyone know where to find the wallet file on OS X?

Should be at ~/Library/Application Support/BitShares
Before doing anything, copy whole folder to safe place.

Edit: In BitShares it's not wallet file, it's wallet folder.
Title: Re: [NOOB QUESTION] How to recover bitshares from my old Mac hard drive?
Post by: pyrocluster on October 03, 2015, 03:39:29 pm: Quote from: testz on October 03, 2015, 03:26:19 pm
Should be at ~/Library/Application Support/BitShares
Before doing anything, copy whole folder to safe place.

Edit: In BitShares it's not wallet file, it's wallet folder.

Hmm. Can't find that folder in my old HDD. Weird..
Title: Re: [NOOB QUESTION] How to recover bitshares from my old Mac hard drive?
Post by: URSAY on October 13, 2015, 10:54:02 pm: Quote from: pyrocluster on October 03, 2015, 03:39:29 pm
Quote from: testz on October 03, 2015, 03:26:19 pm
Should be at ~/Library/Application Support/BitShares
Before doing anything, copy whole folder to safe place.

Edit: In BitShares it's not wallet file, it's wallet folder.

Hmm. Can't find that folder in my old HDD. Weird..

You probably need to show hidden files within Mac OS.

http://osxdaily.com/2009/02/25/show-hidden-files-in-os-x/