Ok so I ran ccleaner and restarted the wallet, the blockchain information has now dissapeared and the wallet has to start syncing all over again. It’s currently 51 weeks behind. Im getting very worried that i must have messed this one up myself…

:-[

Will be with a student in the flightsim for the next hour and check back after that!

Search of the C drive returns two files:

the wallet.dat in the user/appdata/roaming/feathercoin folder and the backup I made of this file in my google drive folder. They are the same file so restoring the wallet.dat from my google drive is not goin to make a difference here.

Looks like the wallet.dat file dissapeared somewhere yesterday as I was doing the windows 8.1 upgrade. I’m running a Mcafee antivirus and firewall which came with this laptop, and was here most of the time, so I cannot assume foul play at this stage. (none of my colleques at work are to clued up on cryptocoins to heist my wallet anyway…

What i am wondering about: I did use ccleaner yesterday after the upgrade to clean out internet cache and windows tmp files. I also set windows environment variables to the same appdata folder. so it could be possible that ccleaner erased files from the folder. Unlikely though since some of the files in this folder are from yesterday morning. Ill run cc cleaner again to c what happens. Its probalbly a red herring here…

sigh…

:-\

Good Morning Sebastiaan, welcome here again.

If your wallet are completed synced and no coins are into, please reach this condition :

• Verify that your wallet completed sync with network
• Verify that the 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV address are into your wallet (the address is into the wallet.dat file, place the correct wallet.dat into the folder)

Only when you reached these conditions, please follow these steps :

• start feathercoin
• open a console window in feathercoin (Debug-> console)
• type **dumpprivkey **6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV
• copy/note/write down the response, which is your private key for that address

(DO NOT POST PUBLIC YOUR PRIVATE KEY, KEEP IT SAFE AND SECRET)

Let me know when you are done these steps.

No joy, the address does not appear in the wallet and the console returns:

Private key for address 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV is not known (code -4)

Sounds to me like the wallet.dat that had your 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV address in it has some how managed to get over written. I’m pretty certain a Windows 8.0 --> 8.1 upgrade would not cause this but will build a dev environment a little later today and see what happens if I have time.

I’m going to as some questions, I don’t think your stupid I just want to rule out the simple things in life because I am a very simple person :)

No problem…

​Did you change the user account/name you where logging onto the laptop with?

No

Did you reinstall the wallet after you generated the 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV address

No

Have you done a simple search of the hard disk for wallet.* (not wallet.dat) and can you post the results?

The search is currently running

Ok the wallet is completely synced, and no coins. Address 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV does not appear on the receive list even though it was generated by this wallet. Now what…?

Thanks for the help sofar guys!

Seb

p.s. the client is version v0.8.6-beta

Thanks I have backed up the wallet.dat. Im going to try and sync again just. If this doesnt work, I should reinstall the client and replace the wallet.dat with my backup right? I still find it very strange that the newly generated address simply disspeared after the laptop rebooted. keeping my fingers crossed…

Let me know if the 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV is the new wallet address (new pc)

It is the address on the new pc

I did not back up the wallet, as it was busy syncing and was empty in any case. My plan was to backup after the coins had arrived. I have the wallet.dat but i am not sure what to do with it. I have made a backup of it so long. Currently the wallet is not syncing, its four hours behind. Im trying the firewall next.

A 136 and change, exactly as it shows on the link. I knew the transfer was made, but will I ever be able to reach the coins in that address?

I reckon the windows update messed up the content of the user/appdata/roaming/feathercoin folder. is there a file in here from which i would be able to restore the address in my wallet?

any help is appreciated!

All my coins have gone missing! I transferred my coins from a work PC to my new laptop. The feathercoinwallet on my laptop was still syncing the blockchain when I generated a new address to receive my coins. I copied the address to my work pc using google drive and transferred all the coins to my new wallet.

The laptop was downloading and installing several updates for windows 8 in the process, amongst which the update to windows 8.1

After finishing the updates i finished syncing the block chain of my new wallet, to find that the my newly generated address is no longer there!

The coins have been send from the wallet on my work pc but I cannot receive them on my laptop! What the hell happened here? How can I get my coins back?

The coins were send to this address: 6vC7eRfrmeFhPQRzJidicDfjjN7Saii1VV

It wasn’t much but i painstakingly traded these coins up on vircurex, and really dont want to have to start all over.

Any help appreciated!

Sebastiaan

Hello miners,

Following the below guide, I have managed to set up an 8 core virtual machine with ubuntu 13.10
[url=http://quark.freeforums.net/thread/457/azure-mining-step-guide-quarks]http://quark.freeforums.net/thread/457/azure-mining-step-guide-quarks[/url]

I set it to work mining feathers following these steps:

Log onto the machine using putty.
Download and install minerd

[i]sudo -s
aptitude install make gcc m4 automake libevent-dev zlibc zlib1g-dev libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev git

git clone git://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git

cd cpuminer/
./autogen.sh

./configure CFLAGS=“-O3”

make

tmux[/i]

Then start minerd using the following command:

[i]./minerd -a scrypt -o stratum+tcp://ftc.give-me-coins.com:3336 -t 8 -u Sebastiaan.5 -p[/i] b

The hashrate is now 29.62 khas/sec (8 threads) which is somewhat disappointing since the quark miners report up to 750 khas/sec for a same sized virtual machine.

Naturally I want o make the most out of my $200 freebie at windows azure so I will stop my virtual machine for now and try mining some quark instead. Who has an idea on how to improve the hash rate though? Is there a mistake in my setup? Should I use a EU based VM maybe? Or is feathercoin just to difficult for this type of operation? All input and ideas are appreciated!

chrs

Seb