I opened my wallet today to buy more siacoin and I noticed my balance now shows 0KS. I haven't downloaded an update or messed with anything because of some problems people have been having. I had previously found the wallet.dat file and copied it onto my desktop as a backup. I just replaced the wallet.dat file that was in sia with the one I had on my desktop and it still says 0KS. It also is showing a different address. How is this possible? Any ideas on what I should do? Thanks
was it showing a new address before you replaced it with the one from your desktop? or did you happen to notice that?
yeah it was showing 0KS and a new address before I replaced it
i would simply zip and backup the full wallet directory
I didn't backup the full directory but a couple weeks ago I did backup the wallet.dat file located in (on a mac you need to right click and select show package contents on the electron app first): Contents/Resources/app/Sia/wallet. I didn't also backup the wallet.backup file is that what is causing this? I just replaced the wallet.dat file that's located in Sia/wallet with the one I backed up a couple weeks ago. Still no balance though. Does that mean somehow someone got my private keys and sent the coins somewhere else? Or both my wallet.dat files are corrupted?
i doubt someone has your keys
doublecheck that your wallet has more than just 1 peers (it usually starts with 1 peer and builds up over time)
also ensure to replace the wallet file and then start the wallet (i doubt it will work to replace it while wallet is running)