Quote from: Xenland on May 30, 2011, 06:02:41 AM

Quote from: Stone Man on August 10, 2010, 11:15:16 PM

Here are the details.

1) Bought 9,000 BTC on one of the exchanges over time.
2) Transferred them to my client running on a linux live CD distro of Debian.
3) Backed up the wallet file to a flash drive.
4) Sent 1 BTC to myself
5) Closed client before any confirmations
6) Shut down system (wiped system disk loaded into memory and therefore the ./bitcoin folder
7) Loaded system back up
Cool

Copied old wallet.dat file into ./bitcoin folder
9) After some confirmations appeared the balance was 1 BTC and there was a transaction saying I spent 8,900 BTC to an address I did not recognize
10) I read on the forum threads that people have had problems like this but it seemed only when they were trying to double-spend by sending coins to another address and reloading an old wallet file

Is there anything I can do?

I do have the address that the 8,900 were supposedly sent to but the old wallet file is gone for good.

Thanks,
Stone Man

Dude, im so glad someone else experienced this too. I sent 5BTC to an address that i copy and pasted, then i copy and pasted again just to make sure that i did it right, long story short, idk were they went

in your case, nothing should have gone wrong whether u sent to one of ur own addresses or to someone else's. your client would have taken your chosen amt from one of your stored addresses with coins just above the chosen amt and sent it to the chosen address. the change would be sent to another of your pre stored addresses. then the process would have been repeated with the only address reused being the one you sent to.