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Re: [ANN][ZEN] ZenCash: Private, Secure, Resilient CryptoCurrency with zk-SNARKs
by
daemonfox
on 04/08/2017, 13:31:15 UTC
updating to the latest wallets. Huh

At the start of zen, I mined 120 coins approximately. Backed up my wallet files. I can't remember if you could access the private keys in eleos? Then after updating the wallet approximately version 0.0.5/6 windows 10 64. I could not import my coins successfully. I have been afk for a few months since then.

On a different computer running eleos 0.0.7 mined another 40 coins over the past month. The wallet files are again backed up. Earlier this week I deleted the app data and installed 0.0.9 and imported the wallet. 100% connection still no coins? import successful.. I tried importing to swing as well but no luck.

Clearly I'm missing something. Wink

I asked on the official forum but received no response for well over 30 days. Any advice would be wonderful.

I had the same issue you are experiencing. Eleos is a very bad wallet with too many issues. This was how i fixed it. Restore all the appdata folder back to what it was with the wallet. Then go in the Zen folder and delete blocks folder, chainstate folder, and database folder. Leave everything else the same from when you were on Eleos 0.0.7. Now load up the newest version of swing and you it will load up your previous wallet and you will have all the coins again after it fully syncs.

Thank you so much! I recovered the second wallet. The older wallet I only have the wallet.dat and importing it always results in it converting into a .BAK file. I can't restore the appdata.

Anymore tricks to help me  Grin Grin

If it wasnt encrypted, i believe you can use pytools to open the wallet.dat file and inside you will find your addresses and related keys + lines of transactions related to your addresses.

I have had success recovering keys from unexcrypted wallet.dat files using pytools but this was 4-5 years ago when it was new and BTC only... only use  on a copy of your backed up file never the backup itself.