I’ve installed and fully synced a Zcash 6.0.0 Full Node on Ubuntu and am looking to hopefully recover funds from my old wallet.dat.
The first problem I have is I can’t physically find a wallet.dat created by this node, but if I do ./src/zcash-cli getwalletinfo it shows me there is a 0.0000 balance and some details as if the wallet is there. I’ve done a file search and still can’t find a wallet.dat anywhere. There must be something I’ve not done??
Secondly, since I’ve been out the game a very long time (I just got busy and never wanted to extract any money out of Zcash) my wallet.dat I believe is from 2019 but the sheilded address I have in there starts with ZC which mean’s its an old Sprout key as far as I am aware.
I tried to import the key into YWallet but it just comes up with an error, and I can’t find the address on any block explorer, which has me worried!
I have 47 ZEC in that address so I’m really hoping it can recovered and I haven’t lost it all
Thank you, yes this is how I did it before on the windows Node I had, but since this is now deprecated and I have Linux node, I cannot find the default wallet.dat that it has created to then replace with my old one.
After shutting down your node and swapping out the wallet.dat, you will almost certainly need to start your node with the -reindex flag (to fix the wallet’s view of the network), which will take a while. (Once you’ve done that, if you shut down the node again then make sure to not keep the -reindex flag on the next start or it will start reindexing from scratch a second time.)
Thank you, yes I was expecting it to take a few days.
My first sync (before I transferred the wallet in) was just under 3 days, however now I’ve put the new wallet in and done -reindex, it seems to have stalled at 66% and be going very slowly (block height 18350000ish, downloading about 1 block per second which at this rate will take 600 days lol) which is frustrating, trying to diagnose now.
If you have enough memory, you can try the following:
With the default setting (450, units are MB), it took 6.5 hours to reach height 283k. With dbcache increased to 8000, it reached that height in 42 minutes. It’s always better to increase the dbcache setting if you’re not memory-constrained
Sorry to spam gents, I apologise if I’m being a nuisance but, when I did this the first time it was nothing like this. It’s just since I changed my wallet.dat file and did reindex.
To not move even 1% in 24hrs seems crazy to me when it synced the full blockchain in 3 days the first time. It’s done 8,000 blocks in that time, to get to 2.2m it will be ~50 days at this pace.
Unless it’s something to do with the addresses in my wallet being old (zc addresses)??
