You feel entitled to bother a lead developer
I feel "entitled" to email anyone who shares his or her email address with the world. S/he is of course free to ignore my email. We are all equals, my friend.
for your own personal tech support?
It was actually to post here so that the entire community could have a definitive answer to this question. Ironically, it was a post of yours that finally convinced me that I had to check with someone who would actually know the correct answer:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145437.msg1553996#msg1553996It has also been reported that the new leveldb database format is not as portable, i.e. a datadir created on Linux might not work on Windows.
I had even replied to that comment 5 days ago asking for any further details from you or the community:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145437.msg1670599#msg1670599Thanks for the info, deepceleron. Do you know if it is possible to copy the 0.8 blockchain to a new computer by simply pasting the blocks and chainstate directories? Any further info on whether such a transfer would work cross-platform or not?
Sadly, apparently no one here knew the correct answer or could be bothered to share it. I decided to try my best to find out and share the answer so that others could benefit. With the blockchain well over 7.5GB and growing fast, it is important that users know how to copy the blockchain correctly.