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Technical Support / Re: Can't transfer wallet.dat from one Windows computer to another. What's wrong?
« on: August 25, 2014, 10:25:55 pm »
I have wallet.old and wallet.dat (from USB) in the Bitshares PTS folder now. It's still loading the newer (empty) wallet instead of the one from teh USB. It never bothered syncing, since it already synced a few minutes ago.  :-\

I even reinstalled the client, but it still hasn't downloaded the blockchain again. Weird.

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Technical Support / Re: Can't transfer wallet.dat from one Windows computer to another. What's wrong?
« on: August 25, 2014, 09:57:49 pm »
Quote from: xeroc on August 25, 2014, 08:09:39 pm
You cannot make the client use a 'different wallet.dat' easily ..
I suggest you

1) create an empty wallet.dat file
2) get a new address you can load your PTS into
3) close the wallet
4) make a backup of the wallet.dat file
5) mv your old wallet.dat file in the place of the new one (BACKUP) ... must be called wallet.dat
6) restart the client (takes some time as it has to rescan the blockchain, maybe)
7) transfer you funds to the address of your new wallet .. from step 2


Thank you, I'll try that.

In step 1, am I creating a new wallet.dat file by installing the client on the new computer? I'm not sure how to create an empty one, I've only installed the client and made a backup.

I tried working through it by creating a wallet.dat backup in the new wallet, and saving it in the library folder. I copied and replaced it with the wallet.dat from my USB drive, no luck. It's already synced from earlier.

I may just give up and transfer my PTS instead of messing with the wallet.dat file, thanks though.

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General Discussion / Re: If you need BTSX to finish the registration, Just post your account key here
« on: August 25, 2014, 06:51:01 pm »
BTSX5ybmjrXRo1Zb4Z3SDxzJsTX8ZRd3JDFuY3UMXyiXjnBTfFn5iU

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to get started!   8)

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Technical Support / Can't transfer wallet.dat from one Windows computer to another. What's wrong?
« on: August 25, 2014, 06:29:16 pm »
Here's what I'm doing:

Making backup file pts.dat from the wallet on my laptop with all the PTS

Put that file into USB drive, eject

finding Bitshares PTS folder on new computer

put the new computer's pts.dat into recycle bin (don't need it, moving my old wallet to new computer)

Move pts.dat from USB drive to the bitshares PTS folder

From here, I've tried clicking on the Bitshares-PTS client, and opening the pts.dat file with the client. I would just create a new wallet and send the PTS, but I feel like I should learn how to understand how it works...even though I feel like a complete moron right now.

Do any of you experienced Bitshares people know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

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Technical Support / Re: Forgot password - how do I install a new wallet?
« on: August 16, 2014, 10:07:19 pm »
Quote from: Riverhead on August 16, 2014, 09:07:38 pm
No worries. Look in the %AppData% directory. You can type that right into the path bar of the file explorer (winkey+e)

Awesome. Thanks so much!!!

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Technical Support / Re: Forgot password - how do I install a new wallet?
« on: August 16, 2014, 08:48:43 pm »
Quote from: Riverhead on August 16, 2014, 06:11:09 pm
What os are you running? You need to find the "BitSahres X/wallets" directory and rename the default directory to something like default.forgotten (without the client running). When you start the client it'll create a new default directory.

Thanks. Running Windows 7. After going into bitsharesx/bin I don't see anything with the word wallets.  :-[

Sorry for being such a noob. I'm just trying to create a new BTSX wallet, buy some BTSX on Poloniex, and send them to myself in the wallet.

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Technical Support / Forgot password - how do I install a new wallet?
« on: August 16, 2014, 03:14:56 pm »
I'm that guy that forgot to write down the password. That's what I get for installing and transferring PTS while family was over visiting.

Anyway, live and learn. I downloaded the Bitshares X client on my desktop and messed around with it for a day, then downloaded the client on my laptop where I transferred all of my PTS. I don't want to touch anything on my laptop in case I remember the password again, but I want to install a new wallet on my desktop so I can start over.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Bitshares X, but when it opens, the blocks are all synced, and it asks for my password again which I can't remember, either. Any tips for how to start with a clean slate at this point?

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