You are allowed to delete addresses from the address book, EVEN if they have been used in active transactions.
This should be Double verified.
Also when the block chain is syncing, it is possible to delete MULTIPLE addresses due to lag.
Finally IF...... one of your recieve coins addresses is in your Address book, it is possible to delete it AND it disappears from your RECEIVE coin list.....
Unless my memory of the GUI is seriously flawed you can remove address entries — places for you to send coin too... but this isn't the same as removing your addresses. There is no way in bitcoin to remove a receiving address from your wallet, for exactly your concerns.
You can remove anything from the address book you want. The address book contains send-to addresses, not receiving addresses. Deleting them does not cause any harm to the wallet itself.
So I don't understand the second point, "if one of your receive coins addresses is in your Address book, it is possible to delete it AND it disappears from your RECEIVE coin list". First, addresses are either in the address book or receive coin list, secondly, there are safeguards at multiple levels that prevent receive addresses from being deleted.
Can you give steps on how to accomplish this? How do you get receiving address in your address book in the first place?
Yep the wallet is fine... BUT one "receiving address went missing"
All I know is , that i had the address book open and I was deleting two addresses I did not need, but on selecting one then pressing the delete, there was a delay and when it finally completed 3 were missing. One of which was a "loop" receive address I use for testing , that loops back to me.
When I went back to my "receive coin" list, the loop back address was missing.
I have just re-opend the program again, to test it, but now I find that whereas before, there was only one entry left in the"address book" (I had 4.. 3 got deleted one was left) Now I find there are TWO left!!!, and there was definatly one on shutdown, because I remember thinking "oh Sh\ there is only one address left"
The only other way this could be explained, is if the system was storing keypresses with a screen lag. I.E in my address book it looked like 3 had been deleted, but only two had been, and when I switched tab to "receive coin" then one address was deleted from there.
It all sounds highly convoluted, but how else to understand why one address has appeared in the address book, but one has gone from the receive coins addresses.
in view of this, I'm not going to pay about when the blocks are syncing.