lightning-power-users / node-launcher

Easiest Bitcoin Lightning desktop app, for Windows, macOS, and Linux
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Reinstalled node launcher/Core/LND. How to recover old node/wallet and resume its operation? #371

Open jchello opened 5 years ago

jchello commented 5 years ago
PierreRochard commented 5 years ago

directories got scrambled. Consequently, I reinstalled everything

Please elaborate on this

By default the directories should still be in ~/Library/Application Support

jchello commented 5 years ago

The contents of those directories were moved from the main drive which was running out of space and had switched to pruned mode I believe. So I decided to locate all my bitcoin applications to an external SSD, and in that process emptied the original directories. I believe I have all the data that was originally in them, but I am wondering if there is a simple way to just reconstitute the original node and wallet. Thanks for your time, and mostly, thanks for developing node launcher. Worse comes to worse, I'll just restart a new node, but that seems silly given that there is over $200 worth of bitcoin in 9+ channels in that node that I now cannot figure out how to restart.