I backed up my Bitcoin wallet on a drive for safety. Luck has it that my computer crashed. So now I downloaded Bitcoin Core, but do not how to retrieve my backup. Please help. thanks
Restoring a wallet on a fresh machine:
- Start Bitcoin-Core (daemon or Qt), shut it down after it has started up (you only do that to create the necessary data directory)
- Replace
wallet.dat
with your backed-upwallet.dat
(see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory if you can't find the data dir) - Startup Bitcoin-Core, wait until your node is in sync (can take a couple of hours/days)
If you have created the wallet with Bitcoin-Core >= 0.14 (HD Wallet).
2a. Startup Bitcoin-Core (Qt/core), call getnewaddress
100-10000 times (depending on how many addresses you have created)
(This hopefully will go away in Core 0.15)
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What does it mean: "call getnewaddress 100-10000 times"? How to do it on windows? – JavaRunner Jul 17 '17 at 0:28
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