Something wrong on import a super old wallet?
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Hello all, I mined a bunch of coins several years ago (2013/2014ish), and then promptly forgot about it. I saved my old wallet.dat file, but nothing else. I downloaded the new version (0.9.6.2-standard) and have fully synched to the chain. when i copy over my wallet.dat file into the ~./Library/Application Support/Feathercoin directory and restart, it scans, but says the balance is 0. is there something else that I should be doing before importing an old wallet? I would hate to have lost these coins.
Thanks!
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What you did sounds ok.
Does your wallet show the right addresses inreceiving/sending addresses? -
After reading your post again, I’m not sure what you did.
By ‘Restart’ do you mean that you just stopped and started the wallet?You need to do a ‘feathercoin-qt -rescan’ to get the wallet check the blockchain for coins belonging to your Feathercoin address.
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Hello and welcome to the forums!
are you familiar with macOS terminal ?
You need to start your feathercoin-qt client with --rescan
Startup (OSX)
Open up “Terminal.app” and enter
/Applications/Feathercoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Feathercoin-Qt --rescan -
Hi and welcome.
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hey - thanks for the tips, i tried the rescan, but nothing popped up at all. just says nothing in there. does that means its gone ? do i have to export keys or something ?
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@enginerd05 said in Something wrong on import a super old wallet?:
hey - thanks for the tips, i tried the rescan, but nothing popped up at all. just says nothing in there. does that means its gone ? do i have to export keys or something ?
can you paste the error you’re getting ?
Maybe you didnt install Feathercoin-QT but you ran it from the DMG ?
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@acidd i am not getting any error, just that the wallet shows no balance (and i know there should be) also everytime i exit the app it asks me to save, but what im saving i have no idea?
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@enginerd05 said in Something wrong on import a super old wallet?:
@acidd i am not getting any error, just that the wallet shows no balance (and i know there should be) also everytime i exit the app it asks me to save, but what im saving i have no idea?
Ok lets start from the beginning…
1 - download Feathercoin QT from Feathercoin.com
2 - If you’re on a MAC, you will download a DMG
3 - when you open the DMG, you need to drag the Feathercoin-qt app into the applications folder on your mac. This means you have installed Feathercoin4 - run Feathercoin from the applications folder
if it loads, you’ve correctly installed it.
next you have to copy your wallet.dat to your your Feathercoin-QT data directory…which should be
~./Library/Application Support/FeathercoinSo to make sure, use finder to navigate to the above location…
then copy your wallet.dat file to the above location
now do this bit
Startup (OSX)
Open up “Terminal.app” and enter
/Applications/Feathercoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Feathercoin-Qt --rescan -
so i did the rescan, and nothing, however in debug.log i see:
2018-01-04 14:36:23 init message: Loading wallet…
2018-01-04 14:36:23 nFileVersion = 90602
2018-01-04 14:36:23 Keys: 0 plaintext, 0 encrypted, 101 w/ metadata, 0 total
2018-01-04 14:36:23 wallet 695ms
2018-01-04 14:36:23 init message: Rescanning…
2018-01-04 14:36:23 Rescanning last 2033528 blocks (from block 0)…so i am thinking there is something i need to do first to the wallet.dat file, otherwise, there are just no coins and i accidentally overwrote it and its gone forever…
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Do you still have your original backup?
Is the file size different from the wallet.dat in your data directory?
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@acidd all the same size 131072 leads me to believe the coins are all gone. =\
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@enginerd05 said in Something wrong on import a super old wallet?:
@acidd all the same size 131072 leads me to believe the coins are all gone. =\
I dont know what to say here. You claimed you have an old wallet.dat from years ago. If you had coins then and it’s the same wallet.dat then you should have your coins.
Unfortunately only you can tell us what you did and we can try to help.
I’ve seen users overwrite wallets before which would mean the coins are gone.
