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Main => Technical Support => Topic started by: widehazer on October 24, 2015, 09:45:58 pm

Title: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: widehazer on October 24, 2015, 09:45:58 pm

I don't know what version my current bitshares client is, but I think it was from more than 6 months ago.
When I try to import the json file into Bitshares 2.0 it says "Invalid Format".
How can I recover my BitShares in this situation?

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: JA on October 24, 2015, 09:47:31 pm

Quote from: widehazer on October 24, 2015, 09:45:58 pm

I don't know what version my current bitshares client is, but I think it was from more than 6 months ago.
When I try to import the json file into Bitshares 2.0 it says "Invalid Format".
How can I recover my BitShares in this situation?

do a backup with your current client.
install 0.9.3c
https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-0.x/releases
export via console
http://blog.smartcoin.pw/2015/09/bitshares-how-to-prepare-your-wallet.html

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: widehazer on October 25, 2015, 12:04:29 am

Thank you for the help.
I was able to install 0.9.3c, but when I run the export command it never does anything.
I ran this command: wallet_export_keys btsKeyExport.json
Then I used spotlight to search for btsKeyExport.json and it does not exist on my computer.

Is this because the client program will not sync? If so, how can I get it to sync? (It says "Severe network problems" and it does not appear to be making progress.)

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: JA on October 25, 2015, 12:12:55 am

Quote from: widehazer on October 25, 2015, 12:04:29 am

Thank you for the help.
I was able to install 0.9.3c, but when I run the export command it never does anything.
I ran this command: wallet_export_keys btsKeyExport.json
Then I used spotlight to search for btsKeyExport.json and it does not exist on my computer.

Is this because the client program will not sync? If so, how can I get it to sync? (It says "Severe network problems" and it does not appear to be making progress.)

what os are you using?

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: widehazer on October 25, 2015, 12:40:14 am

I'm using OS X (10.10.5)

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: Troglodactyl on October 25, 2015, 12:56:28 am

I believe the filename for the export is an absolute location, so what you did would export to the root of your filesystem.  The application may not be running with privileges to create files there, so try entering a full path in quotes instead.

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: widehazer on October 25, 2015, 02:29:49 am

Providing the full path worked great!
I also got the exported 0.9.3c keys imported into 2.0.
Thank you so much for your help!

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: Troglodactyl on October 25, 2015, 03:29:17 am

Excellent.  You're most welcome.

Enjoy!

Title: Re: How to import wallet from a client that is older than 0.9.2
Post by: thezman007 on October 30, 2015, 07:24:13 pm

Just wanted to say, this helped me too. Thanks!