Quote from: Bth8 on June 19, 2011, 10:48:25 AM

Wait, are they all backups of the same wallet? If they all contain the same keys, then there's no reason to keep any but the latest, as it should contain all of your bitcoins. If they're separate wallets, i see no reason to have more than one if you're just going to keep them all in the same zip folder.

Thanks for answering, they are backups of different wallet files. There were about 3-4 different wallets which were used to send/receive a few times each. And I made backups of each sporadically so now I have about 10-12 different backups total. I just want to make sure I don't screw up.

I am reading DamienBlack's post. If I understand correctly I have nothing to worry about.

If I do try and spend more than the actual amount in a wallet (backup) will it spend what it can, or will it only spend if I waited for the wallet amount to update, and spend the exact amount that it says?

And what if it actually has more than my backup shows (while it is updating), and I spend less... and then later more will show up or something?

[I know this is a bit convoluted, but it is really what I did, and I am getting a bit nervous that I will screw up somehow, I remember reading that someone lost 9000 BTC because he didn't have the most recent backup after he spent 1 BTC and his total became ZERO because he was missing the key to the address that was supposed to show that 1 BTC. Apparently it was the problem that the system sent his total wallet amount, and the receiver got the 1 BTC and the remainder had nowhere to come back to]