Yeah, I also wanted to emphasize that we must be very careful doing even simple things like this. Cheers :-)! 

Glad to hear it man.  Gives me some more hope, but I know I'm not safe till the coins arrive! ....

Just for the record, this is the disclaimer that appeared when I installed the newest darkcoin update:



First time I have seen this, but also the first time I installed a Version higher than 10

Scary, though technically a wallet.dat doesn't contain any DRK, it's the whole darkcoin network that contains them.
Your wallet just saves your private keys to your addresses.


I am thinking about engraving my private keys on a granite slab.  

On a fresh wallet, it takes a couple minutes to load due to the generation of addresses (1000). After the new wallet is generated, there isn't a lag other than the connecting to peers and loading blockchain.

I have the same issue. I think it is because of the insane amount of transactions. My wallet size is 28Mb's.

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/linux-qt-wallet-unresponsive.2620/

my old wallet dat file is 17.2 MB is that the problem its still lagging right now

where do I type that in

The magical computer box or just bash. (linux)

For windows, you could try this but I'm not sure if it would work.

Start by running the wallet as the daemon instead of QT. Then in command prompt start darkcoind. (You'll need to edit your configuration file by adding three lines)

darkcoin.conf

Once you've started the daemon in command, stay in the same directory and try this:


I'm not sure if that is the equivalent grep command in windows but it's worth a shot!

Edit: That won't work. It's not counting the number of occurrences that txid occur.