Old wallet gone?????????
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Right so I’m a member of the Feathercoin team. I do the Mac and Windows Releases.
let me try and address your issues so other people reading do not get the wrong idea.
We - did not change our program so you couldn’t access your stuff. Our software was upgraded and we expect our users to upgrade with us. This is normal and most software including bitcoin works like this.
You said " how do you use that dumpkey command… there is no place in the wallet to put it." This is simply not true. If you click around and explore the Feathercoin-qt application and all the options…You’ll find the console window where you can type console commands to Feathercoin-QT.
If you’re on a mac…you can follow my last post here:
https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/9467/something-wrong-on-import-a-super-old-wallet/9if you’re on Windows or Linux let me know and I’ll do my best to help.
I can appreciate your frustration…hopefully we can sort this out shortly. :slight_smile:
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Also one of our Team members @wrapper has painstakingly put together a very detailed guide for Fethercoin-QT. It’s wonderful and has pictures as well :slight_smile:
https://github.com/wrapperband/FeathercoinWalletGuide
It explains all the features and it’s worth a read…especially if you’re not sure how the software works etc.
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what ever you want to call it update or change, the point is it never alerted me so how would I know to up date it… Why didnt it update itself? any ways I am on windows If you want the dat file i can give it to you and you can recover the 402 coins and then send them back to me after they clear or post or what ever??
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
what ever you want to call it update or change, the point is it never alerted me so how would I know to up date it… Why didnt it update itself? any ways I am on windows If you want the dat file i can give it to you and you can recover the 402 coins and then send them back to me after they clear or post or what ever??
Again all I can do is apologise. We send out network alerts, we update the forum guides and download links, we post on twitter…we do almost everything we can to notify users of our new releases.
I would not recommend you ever send your wallet or private keys to anyone over the internet. You should be treating them as a secret you’re prepared to take to your grave.
If you’re on windows you should be able to open the Windows Explorer and type this in the address bar
where I’ve highlighted the Yellow…you need to put the below location in there to get to your Feathercoin-QT data directory
%AppData%\Feathercoinyou should then see this:
So if you install 0.9.6.2 and then do the above instructions… All you need to do is replace the wallet.dat file you see in the screenshot with your old Backup where you say your coins are stored.
then load Feathercoin-Qt in the normal way.
let me know how you get on.
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@GLcoin1 how old is your client ?! I tested on 0.9.6.1 which is the previous production release.
Did you not get the network message telling you to upgrade ?
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You are making some progress now… No I have not gotten any update alerts… I went to my old computer and downloaded the wallet software. this time the balance shows up. but at the bottom it says NO block chain available… and I am 3 years 47 weeks behind… I went to the tab and made a back up on my external drive… dont know if that will help or not… so I don’t think I can send or receive anything
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
You are making some progress now… No I have not gotten any update alerts… I went to my old computer and downloaded the wallet software. this time the balance shows up. but at the bottom it says NO block chain available… and I am 3 years 47 weeks behind… I went to the tab and made a back up on my external drive… dont know if that will help or not… so I don’t think I can send or receive anything
I think you are the one making progress.
If you downloaded the new wallet and your balance showed up. Just leave it open for a bit and let it try and connect to some nodes and start syncing.
The message “No blockchain available” means it hasn’t connected to any Feathercoin nodes to download the blockchain.
If you see your coins - wait for the sync to finish and then you will be able to spend them.
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i dont know if i will ever spend them i dont know which exchange even takes them or how to spend them… by the way are they even worth anything?
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
i dont know if i will ever spend them i dont know which exchange even takes them or how to spend them… by the way are they even worth anything?
I suggest you do some research then :-)
your collection of 402 FTC is worth 0.01202382 BTC at current trading prices
0.01202382 BTC to USD = $181.86 at current trading prices.
If you can be bothered to browse around the forum and read, you’ll see there’s tons of resources and information on the coin…if you want to learn about it.
this link shows you the exchanges that currently support FTC - See the first post.
https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/6526/exchanges-that-trade-feathercoin-ftcI hope this helps.
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Marking as solved since @GLcoin1 reported that they downloaded the new client and was able to see their balance.
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You have been very helpful… THANK YOU… I looked on market cap and saw the value. thanks for your help dont know if I can send these to my other wallet on the laptop or not… It is still not finding a blockchain…
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
You have been very helpful… THANK YOU… I looked on market cap and saw the value. thanks for your help dont know if I can send these to my other wallet on the laptop or not… It is still not finding a blockchain…
Are you talking about the new wallet with Version 0.9.6.2 or your old one?
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
i dont know if i will ever spend them i don’t know which exchange even takes them or how to spend them… by the way are they even worth anything?
They’re not worth anything, send them to me …
If you want to try an exchange here’s a referral to Cryptopia : https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Register?referrer=FTCHodler
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@wrapper :laughing:
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@wrapper On one computer the block chain has been downloading real slow only 3 yrs 9 monts to go. it shows 0 balance and does not pick up my wallet… On my other computer It shows my transactions of the old wallet, but it will not connect to the server to sync… I can view the paper wallet on the screen but it will not print out…
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
@wrapper On one computer the block chain has been downloading real slow only 3 yrs 9 months to go. it shows 0 balance and does not pick up my wallet… On my other computer It shows my transactions of the old wallet, but it will not connect to the server to sync… I can view the paper wallet on the screen but it will not print out…
You can copy the blockchain over to the other computer (the one with the transactions) when the sync completes. You can also copy the peers.dat, it may help the other PC connect. If not copy the wallet.dat to the synced PC.
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@GLcoin1 - can you please try to be as specific as possible if people are going to take time out of their days to provide free support to you.
I am trying to decipher your posts…
You have 2 computers. Both of them have a copy of Feathercoin-qt installed.
Are both machines running 0.9.6.2 ?
On Machine1 - The client refuses to sync but you can see your coins ?
on Machine2 - The client syncs, but your balance says zero ?Is this correct ?
Also can you please explain this line:
I can view the paper wallet on the screen but it will not print out… -
OK so here is the update. Computer #2 finally finshed syncing.
I went an backed up the wallet.
then I went to the old computer and got the wallet dat file. I took that and replaced the wallet dat file on the new computer…
NOW the new computer IS synced AND the balances show up!!!BUT when I go to the menue to print out the paper wallet the wallet show up on the screen with the address and qr code, but when I click “print” it never prints…
I do think that the Send and Receive functions work but I am not sure because I cant find an exchange that will take FT…sooo close but no cigar yet…
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@glcoin1 said in Old wallet gone???:
I cant find an exchange that will take FT…
sooo close but no cigar yet…https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-FTC
https://www.coinexchange.io/market/FTC/BTCIf you are located in the Uk you also may try out https://bittylicious.com/
And there are more, so the above is just a ramdom list, without any weighting
