A quick tip for all those updating to 1.6.3.
I have seen a few users post about how they now have to redownload the entire chain and it takes ~3 hours every update..
If you are having to redownload the entire chain every update, your not updating properly and making it a lot harder on yourself!!!
When you update your wallets... ALWAYS back up your wallet.dat file, back up your private keys...(they dont change, unless you add new addresses. There will be one for each address. but always have that down because wallet.dat files can become corrupted), verify new QT wallet through DeepVault, then close your current QT wallet version.
Replace your Old DeepOnion folder where ever it is in C:\Documents etc with the contents of the NEWLY downloaded folder, or just replace the DeepOnionQT.exe it self into your old DeepOnion folder ((NOT THE APPDATA FOLDER, where your exe is stored))
Open the NEW DeepOnionQT.exe file
and BOOM! your good to go.
Thanks for the tip mate
You shouldn't be deleting all of your APPDATA folder everytime, ESPECIALLY your wallet.dat lol.
If you do that everytime you update, you will have to redownload the entire chain from scratch... where its really as simple as a quick back up, and a close/open of new version... easy-peezy.
Dont make it harder on yourself!!
Also again please dont always forget to back up your wallet.dat files.
I tend to back up mine almost every week at least. There are times where you may get a conflicted transaction and the only way to fix it is to revert to an older wallet.dat. Its happened plenty of times to me. You can NEVER have too many backups, in too many places of all your secure data!
exactly what i was used to do: wipe out everything in appdata folder (obviously after a proper backup) :-)
no need to be so hard, just do what quoted above and you are fine
