Bitcoin continues to run without failures since I stopped scheduled
Eraser operations.
If you can tell me which temporary folders Bitcoin uses, I could try and
replicate the fault by trying one-off operations.
(It would also be useful to know which files or folders I need to back
up in order to preserve my accumulated hoard of bitcoins.)
Regards,
Nicholas
Bitcoin Problems
Private email with Nicholas Bohm (COPA v Wright exhibit NB1) · 4 messages · from 30 January 2009 · with Nicholas Bohm, Satoshi Nakamoto
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That would be great.
The directory is "%appdata%\Bitcoin"
It has spaces in it so you need the quotes
cd "%appdata%\bitcoin"
On XP it would typically be:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Bitcoin
Backup that whole directory. All data files are in that
directory. There are no temporary files.
It looks to me like other than unused space, Eraser only erases a
few specific directories that it knows. Whatever "Windows
Temporary Files" is and internet cookies. It would be strange for
it to scan the disk guessing at files to delete.
I think I know what happened. It probably fills up the disk with
a giant random data file to overwrite all the deleted space, and
Bitcoin ran out of disk space.
Disk full checking is coming in the next release. It's already in
the bitcoin-0.1.4-debug.rar I sent you. You should definitely
switch to that. If you run Eraser and Bitcoin gives you a disk
full warning dialog, that would confirm what happened.
Certainly backup the %appdata%\Bitcoin directory before running
Eraser again.
Satoshi
Bitcoin continues to run without failures since I stopped scheduled
Eraser operations.
If you can tell me which temporary folders Bitcoin uses, I could try and
replicate the fault by trying one-off operations.
(It would also be useful to know which files or folders I need to back
up in order to preserve my accumulated hoard of bitcoins.)
Regards,
Nicholas
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Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
That would be great. The directory is "%appdata%\Bitcoin" It has spaces in it so you need the quotes cd "%appdata%\bitcoin" On XP it would typically be: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Bitcoin Backup that whole directory. All data files are in that directory. There are no temporary files. It looks to me like other than unused space, Eraser only erases a few specific directories that it knows. Whatever "Windows Temporary Files" is and internet cookies. It would be strange for it to scan the disk guessing at files to delete.
I have scheduled Eraser to clear a list of specified directories (aimed
at cookies, history, etc), but the only one under Application Data is
C:\Documents and Settings\NB\Application Data\#ISW.FS#\Normal\, which is
clearly nothing to do with Bitcoin.
I think I know what happened. It probably fills up the disk with
a giant random data file to overwrite all the deleted space, and
Bitcoin ran out of disk space.
Disk full checking is coming in the next release. It's already in
the bitcoin-0.1.4-debug.rar I sent you. You should definitely
switch to that. If you run Eraser and Bitcoin gives you a disk
full warning dialog, that would confirm what happened.
Unfortunately this hasn't reached me (and I can't find it in the
quarantined spam either) - may I trouble you to send it again? I'll
then switch and run successive operations on the various directories to
see if I can find which one or more causes the problem.
Certainly backup the %appdata%\Bitcoin directory before running
Eraser again.
Most helpful, thank you.
Regards,
Nicholas
Unfortunately this hasn't reached me (and I can't find it in the quarantined spam either) - may I trouble you to send it again? I'll then switch and run successive operations on the various directories to see if I can find which one or more causes the problem.
I sent it from satoshin@gmx.com because it's a lot easier to send
attachments from there. I'm resending it from there again.
Satoshi