Update: did my system restore, retrieved my old wallet.dat file...then instead of doing the whole upgrade again and waiting another 3 hours to update the pass 3+ years of data on to the 12.1 version...I just did a "undo" my system restore...then copied over my wallet.dat file to my user/user/DashCore folder...then started (my already up to date) Dash 12.1 software and whaLa all my DASH coins and data was there. phew. Thanks to everyone that responded about the wallet.dat. semper fi
That is good to hear, i assume you did a -reindex on the 12.1 software ..
Here is some general info with regards to windows wallets that could be handy for some people :
For the windows wallet you can assign a Dash installation directory in the windows shortcut itself, which can be handy if you want to store the blockchain
to another drive or to another location.
It works as follows :
* Create two new folders, lets use DashCore & DashCoreData as example, which i will place directly in the C drive :
C:\DashCore
C:\DashCoreData
* copy the 12.1 dash-qt.exe into the C:\DashCore folder and make a shortcut to desktop
* copy everything from your old directory (C:\Users\
user\AppData\Roaming\Dash), into that new DashCoreData folder (C:\DashCoreData)
* delete the following files in the DashCoreData folder :
debug.log
budget.dat
peers.dat
fee_estimates.dat
mncache.dat
mnpayments.dat
Rightclick on the Dash shortcut on your desktop, go to properties and adjust the target as follows :
from -> C:\DashCore\dash-qt.exe
to -> C:\DashCore\dash-qt.exe -datadir=C:\DashCoreData -reindex
Press the Dash shortcut on your desktop to fire up the Dash wallet.
You can now remove the -reindex part from the shortcut, as that is needed only once for this v0.12.0 to v0.12.1 migration :
from -> C:\DashCore\dash-qt.exe -datadir=C:\DashCoreData -reindex
to -> C:\DashCore\dash-qt.exe -datadir=C:\DashCoreData