Quote from: etotheipi on July 08, 2012, 04:38:45 PM

Quote from: BadBitcoin on July 08, 2012, 04:22:11 PM

can't wait to use this! However the non importing feature from wallets in 0.6.XX makes this distro completely useless for me, any ETA on when the new version supporting 0.6.2 will be released?

First of all, it's going to be a little while. I need a new wallet format. Read a few messages back in this thread for more info.

Second of all, why is this such a dealbreaker for folks? I'm not looking down on anyone for this, I just don't understand why this feature is so critical -- in fact, it's going to cause so many problems for people I don't even want to do it. Bitcoin-Qt is especially not suited for multiple programs using the same addresses at the same time -- users will end up with locked coins and incorrect balances and it's really difficult to fix.

(1) Even if you can import your whole bitcoin-qt wallet, only the exact addresses you import will be useful. All new addresses produced by Armory and Bitcoin-qt will be different. This is one reason that, if you are going to import any Bitcoin-qt addresses, you should import all of them and then remove the wallet from Bitcoin-qt.
(2) If you're dealing with Vanitygen addresses: those are in the correct format already, so there's not problem there.
(3) If you're not sure yet whether you want to make the move, then you shouldn't be migrating anything. Please just create a new Armory wallet and move some/all of your coins to it. Move them back if you don't like Armory. So much heartache can be avoided this way.

I know that some people are attached to some of their addresses and that's why some people must have a migration feature. And some users want to be able to migrate your keys from an offline wallet without bringing it online. Those are two reasons that wallet migration should be a dealbreaker, but I thought it was a small percentage of users. What other reasons are there?

I am seriously frustrated, because I feel like migration feature is going to cause endless heartache and customer-support issues (locked coins are always a crisis). I just want to know why people are requesting this feature, and make sure that users who actually should not be using the migrate feature anyway, aren't passing up Armory because it's not there. (it sounds like I'm going to have to add all sorts of warnings to the program, akin to what I just warned in this post)

I wouldn't care, but the problem is I have about 40 accounts with different people all sending coins to specific addresses of mine, and tracking them all down individually and getting them to switch to a new address would be way too much work to prove useful for me.