Wallet Passphrase
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Hi, so I’ve downloaded the Feathercoin wallet and it’s currently syncing with the network. But it looks like the passphrase has already been set… But I’m pretty sure I haven’t done this, so either once the wallet has synced there will be an option to re-set the passphrase, or I just need to delete everything and start again (wallet is empty).
Any advice appreciated…
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Welcome to the Forum.
none of the wallets (linux, windows,mac, android) is encrypted after install.
Questions I have:
- What does lead you to the assumption, that the wallet is password secured?
- can it be a left over from a previous installation? If an old wallet.dat is found in the feathercoin configuration directory, it will be used.
If it is locked by a password, there is no way to recover the wallet without knowing the password.
The only thing you can do then is (and accepting a loss of all coins in the wallet :( ):- Linux
- delete the .feathercoin directory under your users home directory
- start the wallet again. it will come up clean
- Windows
- delete the .feathercoin directory under your %appdata% directory
- start the wallet again. it will come up clean
- Mac
- you need to find the feathercoin config directory and delete it. I’m not sure how to find it, but my guess is, that the Linux way will work
- Android
- remove the wallet app from your device and install it again
I hope that helps
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Thanks for the reply. Yea after a bit of digging it appears I installed this before back in 2013… !! Just forgot about it. But no coin in the wallet, so no dramas! Cheers
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Great to hear no coins lost, kudos to @Wellenreiter for deducing what might have happened.
