Is there a way to load a bitshares account without using the bitshares software?

[Ander]

I've found running BitShares GUI on windows completely intolerable.  I gave up on that a long time ago.  Its only stable on Linux and mac it seems.   

So true.  I've been having very similar problems to Adam's the past couple days.  Keeps crashing 50-75% of the way through.  Been trying to get it to finish syncing the blockchain so I can buy some more NOTES!

[santaclause102]

I am just trying to sync as well. This looks promising atm https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17629.msg224847.html#msg224847 (downloading the chain from a chain server instead of via the p2p network)

[Riverhead]

I run the wallet in all supported environments and once sync'd they all work fine. Getting it to sync without crashing or stalling is the key (they call me capt. obvious ).

There are people that host the chain folder as a .zip file that can cut out literally days of pain.

My solution is to delete the data directory and try again. Once it has sync'd for the first time then I worry about importing wallets. Sync'ing and indexing the chain is painful and importing a wallet can be painful if it has many keys. Doing both at the same time is, in my experience, nearly impossible.

1) Fire up the wallet and a task manager. So long as Bitshares is doing a lot of work leave it alone. Let it sit. On an i7 that can be up to a day or so. Less with an SSD more without.

2) Once sync'd shutdown your client and when you're sure the executable is no longer running create a copy of the chain folder.

3) Fire up the client and import your .dat file.

If you ever get off on a fork or corrupted don't try to fix it. Delete everything in the data directory, copy in your chains folder from step 2 above, and once it's happy again restore your wallet from backup.

This process has always worked for me in all environments.

[cass]

Welcome back.

yup welcome back Adam! Guess you're running a Mac, right?

[donkeypong]

Welcome back.

[Xeldal]

I've found running BitShares GUI on windows completely intolerable.  I gave up on that a long time ago.  Its only stable on Linux and mac it seems.   

The only way I've been able to use the GUI software at all on windows is through the browser.  Its a bit of a task to set up but once running it has no issues at all.  aboutbts.com has an easy video walkthrough here: http://www.aboutbts.com/2015/01/how-to-use-bitshares-wallet-in-your-web-browser-with-command-line-wallet.html

There are probably some other suggestions that might be easier for you.

A trick you might try, that I had marginal success with is; first start the CLI client without the GUI.  /program files/BitShares/bin/bitshares_client.exe  After it has completely synced type 'wallet_open default'  enter your password and give it some time to rescan transactions.  type 'stop'  and then launch the regular gui version.   This seemed to work for me sometimes but results varied.

[emailtooaj]

I had this issue and I ended up deleting the whole bitshares roaming file (save your .json wallet first if u have anything in it) and then reinstall fresh. Also be sure to run .exe as admin (if using windows). Firewalls and anti-virus programs are also big culprits hindering a smooth usage, so u may want to check into that also. I temporarily  turned off both my firewall and anti-virus when reinstalling and it went along very smooth, even after turning those back on after I got wallet up and running. I'm on a Win8.1, AMD cpu w/8gb Ram.
You mentioned "wallet.dat"? Is this for the PTS wallet? If so, here is a link to a PTS import thread...
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6113




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[puppies]

I have had great luck running the qt wallet on Ubuntu.  You can install Ubuntu inside of windows https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide.  That might help.  If you don't want to have to build from source maqifrnswa maintains a PPA https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ubuntu/bitshares. 

I am not sure of the state of development on the light wallet https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14323.0.html  Someone might have a windows binary you can use.

One thing I have done to access the wallet on the go is to host the web_wallet from a server, and set up the httpd endpoint to allow me to dial in remotely.  Its rather slow, but it works as a kind of mobile wallet. 

I am not sure if any of these options would work for you.  If you need any help getting any of them up and running let me know.

[Shentist]

do you run windows?

as far as i know their is not a 3rd party solution, so you need to use the normal wallet.

i run my wallet on a computer windows 7 64 bit , I5 with 8 GB and is running most of the time stable.

Some more technical usefull people will answer and will hopefully help.

[AdamBLevine]

Are there any bitshares-vanilla compatible 3rd party wallets available where I can import my current wallet.dat? 

I've been trying to get my copy of bitshares up to date and stable for literally weeks working on it every few days.  I've had a variety of problems the most recent one is I now connect successfully and load my wallets properly but despite connecting to 19 peers the program usually starts stalling and crashes about 50- 64% into parsing the blockchain.  I'm using an i7 laptop that's a little more than a year old.

Any thoughts or suggestions?