Do I need to upgrade my wallet or can I stay with the old wallet and still transfer to a market latter (Trexx)?
I have the backup and seed.
You can decide to not upgrade, but your wallet will not show updates in the after before the hardfork. However, in any time in the future you can download the current version, use your recovery seed to access all your funds and transfer to the exchanger or wherever else.
After upgrading to the latest wallet, it does not like my password. What kind of BS is this??
Have you tried using your recovery seed instead?
If you are already using the seed double check you are not truncating any word, there are 29 words in the seed, all of them make sense in English, spaces between them, no extra space at the beginning or the end of the sequence, no line breaks in the middle (typical if you are copy/pasting)...
Thanks. It looks like I have to wait for syncing to complete before the recovery seed option will work.