Didn't manage to add any new coins to nova yet - turns out I had a hardware failure - manage to torch 2 PSU's =( - so in the process of trying to get my wallet back online on another machine. Unfortunately, my backup from a few weeks ago only restores a few of my coins - so having to recover the hard drive from the frazzled machine.
Any ideas why Magi wallet.dat backups need to be so frequent? I don't see this in other coins I hold.
frequent? Usually, you should only need to backup it as son as you add a new address. This is due to it holds the private key for that address.
Strange - as I only created two addresses, the other address was created over a year ago (backup was definitely from 2017) - and I only ever send my coins to one single address - however the file sizes of wallet.dat are different - and only 10% of my coins made it through. I think Eriksylis seemed to have a similar issue with his wallet. Hopefully the wallet.dat on the old hard drive will contain the same amount of Magi as I had last week (I suspect it will), I wonder if this has anything to do with coin control.
I remember that Eriksylis had problems with the wallet.
Could you please do checkwallet in wallets console?
Referens:
Old post about wallet issueLooks like the restoration from the wallet.dat from my other hard drive fixed the issue, all my coins are back - still alarming that the backup didn't work - I'll see if I can restore my broken backup and run the repair when I get home tonight on an isolated machine
does anybody know if it will cause issues if I run two versions of the same wallet?
You can but you need multiple data-directory for that. In short meaning you can copy your existing data-directory to a new folder and use that with the argument -datadir when launching a new instanse.
-datadir <Path To where you store the magi files>
Good to hear your coins is back!
I think that my link to the old post will help you out. This is the first step i would do if that happen.
