Question about Bks Wallet Backup (B&C)

[Nagalim]

I don’t know if it works from mac to linux. I’ll let someone else respond. Worst case you can dump your private keys and import them, but you’d lose things about your wallet history and stuff.

[ChrisS]

I just was able to import my wallet from Linux to MAC using Peerunity for peercoin, just to try. I am intending to go MAC to LINUX. HMMM

Also, I tried to send from the MAC computer to the new address on the LINUX (rather than doing the wallet) and I get the following error “ERROR: Transaction creation failed.”

[Nagalim]

ERROR: Transaction creation failed.

So your MAC client/wallet isnt working properly? You could check the debug.log

[PinkyAndTheBrain]

I have not installed a Mac version, since nobody is responding to this, I would do the dumpprivkey and then importprivkey:

launch your bitcoin client as usual and wait for it to load the blockchain and start up
click on ‘help’ in the menu bar (top right)
click on 'debug window’
select the ‘console’ tab
type: walletpassphrase “your walletpassphrase here” 600
type: dumpprivkey [your public key here]
this will return the private key, you can copy it now; ensure you clear your clipboard/history afterwards
type: walletlock

and in your linux client:

click on ‘help’ in the menu bar (top right)
click on 'debug window’
select the ‘console’ tab
type: walletpassphrase “your walletpassphrase here” 600
type: importprivkey thatverylongprivatekey

[ChrisS]

Could it be because I have 4 coins in “Stake”?

[ChrisS]

Are there any risks in doing this?

[Nagalim]

There are no risks to dumping and importing private keys as long as no one gains access to those keys (strings of numbers and letters) in the process and both wallets are encrypted with a password only you know. Dont go posting your private key on the internet and you should be alright.

Staked coins don’t matter for dumping and importing private keys. They do matter for transactions to new addresses.

[PinkyAndTheBrain]

another tip:
once you have your private key, you might as well save that in your password manager of choice as backup.

[ChrisS]

here is what happened:

15:12:16
walletpassphrase “password” 600

15:12:49
dumpprivkey [address]

15:12:49
Invalid address (code -5)

[ChrisS]

Is my public key my public address? I just copy and paste the address into “dumpprivkey [address]”? If not, I don’t know what a public key is.

[Nagalim]

Yah but no one is talking about public keys. Just

dumpprivkey 8xxx

[ChrisS]

From Pinky:

type: dumpprivkey [your public key here]

[Nagalim]

Ah, yes, public key is your address.

[PinkyAndTheBrain]

Invalid address (code -5)

I can reproduce this if I make a typo on purpose

[PinkyAndTheBrain]

also: make sure you have ‘Switched to BlockShares wallet’

[ChrisS]

Yep, I was in the BKS wallet.

[ChrisS]

Do I need to remove any of the quotations or symbols in the code?

[PinkyAndTheBrain]

just this:

dumpprivkey 8JWWLsskue4NTpk1pxCWWzzyNf2hTJYMc9

I changed the last digit to a 9 to cause the typo

[ChrisS]

THANK YOU!

I got it!!!

[PinkyAndTheBrain]

this interaction tells me that we are still in the early days.