Problems moving my old wallet

ticklefeather

Hello everyone,

I have been mining feathercoin on an old computer some years ago. Back then I stopped and forgot about the wallet I used (feathercoin-qt v.0.6.4.4 win). Some days ago I wanted to transfer my mined coins by sending an transaction over the network to a new wallet on a different computer , but didn’t realize that I should have synced my wallet first before sending the transaction to my new computer. Now the problem is that the wallet doesn’t get synced. On the qt GUI it shows the sync process only very sporadically for a few seconds but then stops again (I constantly have 7-8 connections according to the wallet client and a fast internet connection). I let it run for several hours several times but it seems to me that there is no progress. As far as I researched, this process shouldn’t take that long.

As far as I understand, the transaction can only be made if the complete chain is synced to my old wallet, my transaction is added to the chain and will then be committed to the network again. Is this correct?

Because my transaction isn’t sent yet, I wonder if there is a possibility to revert the transaction and somehow export the coins to my new wallet not using the network. I already tried to copy the wallet.dat to the new client which is in sync, but it doesn’t show any content at all.

By examining the logfile it shows connection timeouts very often (I assume that this is due to the p2p nature?) and sometimes e.g.

getblocks 120323 to c15839e1549d1266e9ac limit 500
getblocks stopping at limit 120822 6856afce598268b95396

or

received block ed9b2847ece26aa5fa80
ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK, prev=b0bcfd036c5334b7a31d

I am not quite sure how to interpret the logfile, so it would be also nice to have some documentation about how to read the items in it. I’m not only trying to recover my coins but also would like to understand what the client does. So any pointer in that direction would be helpful.

Wellenreiter

@ticklefeather

first of all welcome to the forum. :)

Your old wallet can’t sync with the block chain anymore as the hashing algorithm has changed in the meantime

What you need to do:

locate the file ‘wallet.dat’ on your old pc.
For windows systems it is located in %appdata%\.feathercoin
copy and replace the wallet.dat file on the new pc with the one from the old pc.
start the featercoin wallet with the parameter ‘–rescan’ in the commandline you use.

The wallet will start to sync and as soon as it has fully sync’ed you can use your coins from the new pc

wrapper

Hi and welcome to the forum -

also you need to leave the synchronization running for a couple of days, it should take 25 hours in ideal conditions. Stopping and starting means you loose peers.

If you want to be quicker, you can ask if anyone’s done a recent blockdata.dat file you can download - it can save some time if you are having trouble, the blocks have to be checked so it is not instant.

ticklefeather

Hi Wellenreiter, Hi wrapper,

thank you very much for your support. After 2 days downloading I finally have the coins on my new computer. One additional thing to your adivce, in case someone else faces the same problem. I had to reset the settings in the new wallet before the coins were actually displayed.

Merry christmas to both of you and have an excellent 2018.

wrapper

@ticklefeather Glad to hear, thanks for the update.