I used Bitcoin-qt (Bitcoin Core) on desktop to create a wallet a while ago and I'm a little confused how it works.
I never fully "synchronized with the network" I'm assuming that means download the entire blockchain. I'm about half way there and 30gb deep. I created an address to receive a transaction but don't have a balance in the wallet. I'm assuming it's because it's never caught up with where my transaction is on the blockchain. Is this correct?
I can see when I take the address and look it up online the transaction of receiving the funds I just can't confirm a balance.
It doesn't seem that there's any password that I ever put in either. When everything does sync can I only transfer my balance out using the same app?
Also I had to replace my hard drive on my mac recently so I took both the Bitcoin app and the Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
folder and put them on my new hard drive, are there any other files I would need to get access to my balance?