One thing that came to mind on this topic is the potential for BitCoin loss if you have a system failure. The application doesn’t seem to store any data in the directory that it runs in, so I assume it’s stored in the registry and other places (haven’t cracked out ProcessExplorer yet to check myself), so it may be a good idea to have the application be able to export everything that it needs for recovery to a file that could be backed up off of the system.
The files are in “%appdata%\Bitcoin”, that’s the directory to backup. The data is stored in a transactional database DBM, so it should be safe from loss if there’s a crash or power failure.
%appdata% is per-user access privilege. Most new programs like Firefox store their settings files there, despite the headwind of Microsoft changing the directory name with every Windows release and being full of spaces and so long it runs off the screen.
Dustin TrammellOne other thing I noticed today is that if you close the application it doesn’t appear to cleanly close it’s network sockets (TCP RST’s start flying). Probably an item for the low-priority todo list (:
Just now added code to the next release for that.
Satoshi