Quote from: Bitexchange on November 26, 2012, 11:40:53 PM

let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat

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gmaxwell commented 2 months ago

Eh. The functionality is desirable, but the ability to filesystem split the wallet and data dir is a surefire way to end up with a corrupted wallet. This is subtle and I suspect hard to warn people out of doing, esp since it would mostly work. (until it eats your keys for lunch).

Whats the problem with using multiple wallet files with the same bitcoin client?

Ok you could miss recieved coins if you update the blockchain when there is the wrong wallet loaded, but if you make sure that doesnt happen, is there any technical reason why i cant make 10 wallets and load them when needed?

Because im already doing that and didnt have any problem so far Wink

You won't even miss received coins since the client automatically detects when it needs to rescan. The problem gmaxwell mentions is only if you do something stupid like -wallet=/mnt/usbdrive/wallet.dat, since the database/ directory it depends on is still on the main hard drive. So long as you keep all your wallets on the same disk it should be fine.