Quote from: ddink7 on September 11, 2015, 08:07:21 PM

Quote from: toknormal on September 11, 2015, 06:41:10 PM

Quote from: Salkenex on September 11, 2015, 06:33:27 PM

o the coins are technically still in my wallet, just under a different address? I'll have to look in my wallet when I get the chance. See if I can get it all squared away.

Thanks to those that replied.

Go into the console and type "listaddressgroupings" (after unlocking the wallet). That will show you your full balance with a breakdown by each address - in other words, you'll see all the change addresses that the wallet is currently using.

b.t.w. The first time I got caught out with this change address stuff - a couple of years ago when I first started trading bitcoin - it gave me a complete heart attack because I checked the balances on blockchain.info and saw that most of my funds were gone. I thought I had been robbed.

After that, I always sent the funds back to the "main address" OR created paper wallets for the change addresses. If you've got significant amounts parked at any address I would always at least create a paper wallet using "dumpprivkey" in addition to whatever backups of the wallet.dat you have. Keeps you conscious of things.

I did the same thing, with Litecoin, when I first started! Freaked me out thinking that all my coins got stolen! Now I always reuse an existing address for change.

I've proposed for some time now a feature to be able to add a static change address to the config file. Obviously this has potential anonymity issues, but on the other side, it brings great benefits for many different types of operations out there. Be it at a private or at a corporate level.

Think: redundant long/short cold/backup address safe keep.