I got it to work without having to restart or reinstall. Both clients must be running and all operations are done from the console. In the nu client, type
walletlock
Then completely unlock the wallet. Place your passphrase inside quotes as noted above. 600 second timeout should be plenty of time to complete the process.
walletpassphrase "**************" 600
Now repeat the above two commands in the B&C client. The next command imports the NuShares wallet. I had to specify the complete path to the wallet, eg. /home/username/.nu/walletS.dat, where username is the unique login name (This path is for a typical Linux setup; Windows will be different). The last field is the password, again enclosed in quotes:
importnusharewallet path-to-wallet-file "**************"
The Blockshares should appear in less than a minute. One can then unlock both clients for minting only as usual.
I have a few questions on the above:
1) Why do we have to type walletlock, if we are about to unlock the wallets?
2) Do we have to unlock the wallets if they are not encrypted? My NSR wallet is encrypted - but the B&C client is not, so do I have to type the two commands (walletlock and walletpassphrase, etc.) for my B&C client?
3) Regarding importnusharewallet, is the password we have to put in for the NuShares client, or the B&C client (I presume the NuShares client, but mine is not working, so far)
if you only have your NSR wallet encrypted you don't need to unlock bcexchange client only put in your passphrase password
once you import your nsr wallet.dat to bcexhange client if your bcexchange is lock you need too unlpck it from the main console with your b&c walletpassphrase "**************" 600 first then import your nsr wallet.dat to bcexhange then use your passphrase password foryour nsr wallet.dat