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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-09-15 11:50:45 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-09-23 09:34:53 +0200
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qt: Backup former GUI settings on `-resetguisettings`
Writes the GUI settings to `guisettings.bak` in the data directory before wiping them. This can be used to retroactively troubleshoot issues (e.g. #11262) where `-resetguisettings` solves the problem.
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* wallet.dat: personal wallet (BDB) with keys and transactions
* .cookie: session RPC authentication cookie (written at start when cookie authentication is used, deleted on shutdown): since 0.12.0
* onion_private_key: cached Tor hidden service private key for `-listenonion`: since 0.12.0
+* guisettings.ini.bak: backup of former GUI settings after `-resetguisettings` is used
Only used in pre-0.8.0
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