Is My Gridcoin Wallet Working Correctly?
Before I get to my question, let me give some background. I'm new to Gridcoin, but have participated in BOINC projects for 6 years. It's been 8 days since I first installed my wallet and set up the grcpool account. It took forever to sync the wallet and finally Monday or Tuesday last week my wallet synced. On Tuesday or Wednesday, I had to reboot my machine because of an OS update (Win10). After I rebooted and started the wallet, it wouldn't sync and seemed to be stuck on a block for a couple of hours. While running diagnostics, I learned I needed to update to the current version 3.7.10. I did so but still couldn't get the wallet to sync. I then chose the option to download the blocks and eventually the wallet synced after a few hours.
Fast forward to today. I need to reboot my machine again because I uninstalled some software that requires a reboot to complete. I backed up my wallet and config to prepare for the reboot. I'm hoping that the wallet restart is much smoother than earlier this week. I was looking at my gridcoinresearch subdirectory and noticed something strange. None of the files and folders have been modified since March 7. Today is the 12th. Here's a screenshot.
Does that look right to you? Shouldn't some of these reflect today's date? My wallet is in sync. I've received grcpool payouts today and yesterday, and I've also received some GRC from a couple of faucets. My wallet seems to be functioning correctly.
If I reboot and restart the wallet, am I going to lose activity since March 7?
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@parejan is right, you will not lose anything until you have your
wallet.datandgridcoinresearch.conffiles backed up. (And your password if your wallet is locked)This is because all wallet app in the world stores all transactions since the birth of Gridcoin. But only those are able to open the specific wallet addresses who have the right files for it.
This means, you can install the Gridcoin wallet to another machine, and copy these files to there, and have the same wallet. Maybe it worth a try if you think you have issues with your wallet.
And you can check your current wallet status, balance, and transactions by copying your address to the search field at Gridcoinstats.eu
This is the beauty of the blockchain. Everyone can read the balance, and transactions, but nobody knows who owns the specific wallet.
You can also check there the current block count, if it matches yours to see if your wallet is really synched. (If not, it could be on a fork, but it's a more longer story ;)
The payments are in the blockchain and if you back-up the files marked below with your password, you'll be able to recover you're coins in case you have an issue with your system.
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They should be getting modified, problem here is whether it's windows being fussy about updating the modified date or you wallet being strange,
A screenshot of your wallet would be better in determining if it's working correctly, If it is in sync and you see transactions coming in from GRCpool then it is working correctly.
Additionally if your wallet is unlocked the little uparrow thing should be green to indicate you are staking if you are bothered about staking your coins.
As posting in other comments, backing up wallet.dat and gridcoinresearch.conf will keep you coins safe from anything weird going on, also if you can manually close gridcoin before doing any system restart or shutdown to be extra safe but in general you should not need to.
One last thing I'd like to add, You should make sure gridcoin has a rule allowing traffic through your firewall or antivirus firewall, This will allow incoming connections which will in turn help your wallet stay in sync.
At least the blk*.dat file should have been modified. It appears to me as if the wallet was not running (closed).
At least the blk*.dat file should have been modified. It appears to me as if the wallet was not running (closed).
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