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Hey, does anyone have any experience of using the HYPER win wallet with Wine on a Mac? I keep getting a MinGW Runtime assertion error. The Mac OS wallet I know is not supported and mine recently died on me 
Ok so forget Wine, I've downloaded Windows 10 on Parallels, and the latest version of the windows Hyper wallet. Unfortunately that's not working either. It keeps saying that it's already running, when its not. Going back to the Mac wallet that I had previously, I'm very confused about what it is I should back up - everything on this forum says I should back up the wallet.dat file, but I've never had a wallet.dat file in the Hyper directory - just the blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat. Am I missing something here? Also, when you say 're-download the blockchain' which file are you talking about? I tried downloading the bootstrap but all that's there is a bootstrap.dat, which when I copy it into the folder doesn't help (I still get the 'Error loading blkindex.dat' problem). Sorry guys I've been at this for nearly a day now but still no luck. Any help would be much appreciated!
Yes, you only need the wallet.dat file.
This is from another thread about a mac bitcoin wallet.dat, but I would imagine you'd find it in the Hyper folder like this:
/Users//Library/Application Support/Hyper/wallet.dat
Are you sure you are looking in the "Application Support" folder within your home folder, as opposed to the other "Application Support" folder at the root level of your hard disk?
That is, the file is here:
/Users//Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/wallet.dat
NOT here:
/Library/Application Support/
That is, the file is here:
/Users//Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/wallet.dat
NOT here:
/Library/Application Support/
I don't know that Windows 10 has been officially tested with the Hyper wallet, so it may be causing issues.
Back to the mac issue. If you want to re-download the blockchain, close out the wallet, and copy your wallet.dat file to a flash drive or another location.
Then delete the blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat files and put the downloaded bootstrap file in that folder.
Now open the wallet program again, and it may take several hours to read the files from the bootstrap, just leave it alone and don't shut down the computer while it's running. At some point you should see the wallet pop open and it will download the new data. You can close it out at that point if you need to shut down the computer, but close the wallet first. Just keep the wallet open until it gets synced up.