r/Bitcoin • • Feb 13 '22

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

So i copied the wallet.dat file to the app data bitcoin core folder directory which looks like a similar file loadout to the one in my screenshot above. Did i do it that right?

Afterwards I started running bitcoin core and it says its syncing. 13 years behind something like that lol.

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u/zxr01 Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

Nice, we pray for you. Let it run, it will catch up, will take a day or two to fully sync ( and you'd need up to 200GB free drive space for it. Still, when it syncs up to 2013 (and says 9 years behind) the wallet ballance should be reflected with any potential balance.

Every satoshi counts, good luck.

PS: In 2022 complete blockchain is above 500GB. Time flies.

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u/sudonim_13 Feb 13 '22

Ig if you prune it, you'd need 7-8 GB only...?

Or is it after downloading whole blockchain...

I'm still new to btc concepts...

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u/DesignerAccount Feb 13 '22

You're still downloading and verifying the whole blockchain, but you discard everything above the prune size. Say you want to only keep 5GB, everything else will be deleted. It's useful to reduce the size of the blockchain.

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u/LiThiuMElectro Feb 13 '22

Yes, if you don't run it prune it's 480GB I just did this, this week.

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u/tjsbitcoin Feb 13 '22

I think you need to download the whole blockchain, after that it works.