I have an issue of my own though hopefully somebody can help with.
On a newer laptop I've downloaded a new wallet and replaced the wallet.dat file with the one from my old wallet.
There is still over three years to catch up on however I had earlier transactions than that which I would have thought would be shown by now. Is this a sign that something has gone wrong or does it need to sync right up to date?
Can anybody tell me whether I need to wait for my new wallet to completely sync before the transactions from my old wallet show in the balance?
Ah, I've worked it out.
I had renamed the backup wallet.dat file as something else which caused the new wallet to create a new wallet.dat even though I had already deleted it.
Deleting that and renaming the original back to wallet.dat has solved the problem and I see my quarks.
I thought I'd type this in case anybody has the same problem in the future.
Thanks for sharing that. You beat me to it. I found the instructions for exactly what you had just explained on
http://www.quarkcoins.com/wallet-security.htmlThere is a lot of very good content on this site, although it badly needs updating.
I have pasted in below.
Backup Wallet.dat
This is the file that controls your coins and holds your wealth. Will the coins are not physically in this file, it holds the private key that can access your Quark and send them anywhere. Lose this and your Quark coins are gone forever! To backup your wallet.dat, Click under File and choose Backup Wallet...
Backup Wallet
You will want to name it something useful, such as date and the crypto currency it holds such as 12-12-13-quark.dat.
When you ever need to access your coins again, you can always get this file and rename it to wallet.dat, place it back into the Quarkcoin directory to access your coins. Now, where do you place your backup .dat file? We strongly recommend somewhere offline such as a USB or burn it to a CD. We found that this 5-pack USB is ideal to store multiple backups offline. It is also recommended you do this for each of your cryptos. We recommend:
- You make multiple copies
- Keep them offline, not connected to the internet
- Place it in multiple locations, home safe, safe deposit box, etc...
Good find. That explains it well.