Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX

The help file above didn't help me much actually. how do I install all of the files to one directory. Its still installing the wallet on users/username/appdata/Dash ?? I want to have multiple wallets obviously with their own .dat files.

1) Close the Dash program

2) Rename wallet.dat to wallet_old.dat

3) Restart Dash-qt.exe

It will create a second (new), wallet.dat, which you can then rename to wallet_new.dat, or wallet_2.dat, or whatever you like...

Whichever one you want to load, rename to wallet.dat

Just be certain Dash wallet is not running when you rename wallet.dat files, and it might be a good idea to create a backup of both wallet.dat files as well

PS: Regarding backups, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet#Securing_the_Bitcoin-Qt_or_bitcoind_wallet

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...So when a backup is first created, it has all of your old keys plus 100 unused keys. After sending a transaction, it has 99 unused keys. After a total of 100 new-key actions, you will start using keys that are not in your backup. Since the backup does not have the private keys necessary for authorizing spends of these coins, restoring from the old backup will cause you to lose Bitcoins.

Thanks. As I already have a wallet on the pc with DASH in it...when I install and start the new wallet it always load up the previous .dat file. Is there a way to load the .dat from another folder? I still don't understand where the wallet.dat files are being stored for the individual walltets?

The wallets are in the data folder. The default location for the data folder I think is C:\Users\YourUserName\Appdata\Roaming\Dash - I move all my stuff to another folder, to make it harder for an attacker to figure it out and easier for me to find. I also name all my wallets something other than wallet.dat as this is a really easy to search for target.

You can customize config files like WinesRus.conf for each wallet so a title shows up by adding this line:

windowtitle=WinesRus

Then open notepad and copy the following line and save as startwinesRus.bat. The .bat extension allows you to double click that file to open your wallet. You can use the same data folder for all your wallets if you don't need to run them at the same time. Example if you want a wallet named WinesRus with a WinesRus.conf config file.

c:\coolname\dash-qt.exe -datadir=C:\coolname\Data -wallet=WinesRus -conf=C:\coolname\Config\WinesRus.conf

And a second wallet and config could be. It will create a new wallet if it doesn't find one.

c:\coolname\dash-qt.exe -datadir=C:\coolname\Data -wallet=Wine4me -conf=C:\coolname\Config\Wine4me.conf

Say what?!? Oh man...ok, I'm out of my leaque here. Sorry guys. I'll try to find someone local to walk me through this. This is all Chinese to me.

Edit: I'll pay some DASH for someone to create a simple step-by-step noob guide for running multi wallets. I'll offer 5 DASH.