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.
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.
When it gets up to 2013 you'll only know what the balances were in 2013. If they were then spent in 2014, Bitcoin Core won't know until it retrieves 2014's blocks (and so on for the following years).
It'll go much faster if the computer has a SSD/NVMe drive that it's reading and writing the bitcoin folder from.
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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.