That would be great.
The directory is “%appdata%\Bitcoin” It has spaces in it so you need the quotes cd “%appdata%\bitcoin”
On XP it would typically be: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Bitcoin
Backup that whole directory. All data files are in that directory. There are no temporary files.
It looks to me like other than unused space, Eraser only erases a few specific directories that it knows. Whatever “Windows Temporary Files” is and internet cookies. It would be strange for it to scan the disk guessing at files to delete.
I think I know what happened. It probably fills up the disk with a giant random data file to overwrite all the deleted space, and Bitcoin ran out of disk space.
Disk full checking is coming in the next release. It’s already in the bitcoin-0.1.4-debug.rar I sent you. You should definitely switch to that. If you run Eraser and Bitcoin gives you a disk full warning dialog, that would confirm what happened.
Certainly backup the %appdata%\Bitcoin directory before running Eraser again.
Satoshi
Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on January 30, 2009, 3:50:00 PM UTCBitcoin continues to run without failures since I stopped scheduled Eraser operations.
If you can tell me which temporary folders Bitcoin uses, I could try and replicate the fault by trying one-off operations.
(It would also be useful to know which files or folders I need to back up in order to preserve my accumulated hoard of bitcoins.)
Regards,
Nicholas