Hello!
Sorry for the noobish question, but how can I access my old wallet?
As I see it I must replace wallet.keys and wallet.bin in a WalletData folder with my old ones.
But it gives me an error.
[17:27:49] bitmonero wallet v0.8.8.1()
[17:27:49] 2014-Jul-11 17:27:49.906676 Loading wallet...
[17:27:49] 2014-Jul-11 17:27:49.967680 ERROR c:\users\tom\documents\github\bitmonero\contrib\epee\include\storages\portable_storage.h:161 portable_storage: wrong binary format - signature missmatch
Am I doing something wrong?
Please help.
You may want to recreate your 'wallet.bin' file by only keeping the 'wallet.bin.keys' file in the 'WalletData' directory. From the next version, '.keys' files will automatically be identified, but - as discussed on IRC before with the devs - simplewallet's RPC is not yet capable of restoring those wallets because of the deamon being busy while refreshing. This issue may persist until the daemon's development team does not switch to use rocksDB for storing the blockchain.
Until then, you can restore your wallet from the '.keys' file using command line:
- First, make sure that your 'wallet.bin' and 'wallet.bin.keys' files are backed up, and then the '.bin' file is removed from the directory which contains the keys for your wallet
- Open 'bitmonerod.exe', and then 'simplewallet.exe'
- In the wallet terminal, select the desired file (probably 'wallet.bin' [even if it doesn't exist]), and then enter the passphrase for it
- Input "refresh", and then hit enter
- Execute the "save" command