i've mentioned this before but i've got old deprecated wallets that crash 0.8.8.6 when i load them. it asks for my language of choice for the words then crashes. i tried the new 0.9 version and got it sync'd from scratch. but it still crashes at the same step, after asking what language i would like for my words. just letting you devs know. is there an old version of the software that still works that i could use to load this wallets and move the funds? and if so, where could i get that from?

- much appreciated

the 0.8.8.6 wallet files should open on 0.9

but if not

u can run the bitmonerod from 0.9, and run the wallet from 0.8.8.7 ( i think ). thats the beauty of the software architecture of monero.

yep sorry.

im on windows 8.1 64 bit. litrally just dloaded the old 0.8.8.6 bins, was able to run simplewallet

2.5 hrs to shut it down? I take it that this is a spinning disk drive? Likely a 5400 RPM unit? Among my nodes, I've got a VM running Win 7 64 and 0.8.8.6 - it only has 2 cores and 4GB of memory but it does have an SSD and takes ~ 5 min to startup and shut down. While 0.9 is unbelievably faster to load/stop, uses a fraction of the resources, it should still be possible to live with 0.8.8.6 and 4GB of memory. The key is the SSD.

My windows 0.9 beta has synced and it is using less memory than google chrome 

After I started I shut down my miner which uses both cores of my dual core pentium and therefore maxes it out.  I then noticed while syncing that every 200 blocks there is an operation that maxes out my cpu for a couple of seconds.

I just now opened simple wallet and entered the wallet file name of a wallet that is currently empty.  The message I received was.....

"The Wallet doesn't exist, generating a new one
password:"

When I first open simplewallet it notes the version # as v0.8.8.7-7792255
 



When I typed "exit" in the daemon I received more info than the times I tried to exit when the daemon hadn't fully synced but still it didn't exit.  I retyped "exit" and it very quickly shut down.  I started the daemon up again which only took a few seconds. 

The .keys file of the wallet you want to open should be in the same folder as simplewallet.exe or you should provide a path. If it's in the same folder, but simplewallet still can't find it then you should double check the name of the file (maybe rename it to something very simple as "M.bin.keys" and then try to load "M.bin" - this will be generated based on the .keys file).

When I downloaded 0.9 beta I created a folder BetaMonero for it while keeping 0.8.8.6 in folder Bitmonero.  Now there are no more KEYS files in the Bitmonero folder or the other file with the wallet name!  I do have copies of the KEYS files.  I don't know when this happened.  The first time I tried to run the beta in a new folder and then closed it that new folder disappeared and in the original Bitmonero folder there was a new folder which was/is lmdb. 

I guess it's time to get on IRC

I don't know if you meant to do this for 0.8.8.6 or the beta.  Since I had the beta running and it would take a while to get 0.8.8.6 running I copied and pasted my .keys file into the folder of simplewallet of the 0.9 beta and it still didn't recognize it as an existing wallet when I started simplewallet.  I'll have time tonight to do it for 0.8.8.6 if that's what you meant.

@Nik4692, It was seemingly straightforward so I have no idea what I could have done wrong

I can't see the exact name of the .keys file anywhere.  I assume this is name of the wallet?  If I open the file it looks like Chinese characters.  

I open simplewallet and after "Wallet file name:"  I put in the name of the wallet like I've always done.

Thank you

Right don't open the *.keys file; tell us what the * is and also what exactly you're typing into simplewallet.

Edit (for edit above): In Windows, hold Shift then right click in blank space within a folder with nothing selected to enable an "Open command window here" option.