Transaction

j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMÍ<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=782.msg8653#msg8653">Quote from: gridecon on August 11, 2010, 01:44:09 AM</a></div><div class="quote">Until this thread I was totally unaware of this behavior and risk. The usual behavior of a "backup" of a file is to preserve the contents of that file, and the intuitive understand of the wallet.dat file is that it "contains" the coins. I understand this is a case of the system behaving as designed, but the information that you need to backup your wallet after every transaction and each transaction makes your old wallet backups useless needs to be communicated much more clearly to users, I think. It also seems to me that it would be useful to add features for 'automatic backup' of a wallet after each transaction and easy support for multiple wallets - a "savings account" and a "checking account" so to speak.<br/><br/>Sorry about your loss, Stone Man.<br/></div><br/>+1<br/><br/>This shocked me actually. The poor guy didn't do anything stupid.<br/><br/>Automatic backups are really important after knowing that. And while that cannot be implemented, I think a sort of information message explained this in short words should be displayed every time someone sends coins. A popup saying something like, if I have T coins and I send S coins:<br/>"S coins where sent to address X.<br/>(T-S) coins where sent to address Y, which belongs to you, in order to improve privacy. Please, realize that old backups you might have of your wallet will now be useless. You should make a new one."<br/><br/>This simple message would have avoided this awful lost. (of course, you may also add a "Don't display this again" check box)<br/><br/>Regards</div> text/html