QT: Imported adress ends up in Adress tab on first import, then Recieve tab on same repeated import #3831

issue backlof opened this issue on March 9, 2014

backlof commented at 5:56 PM on March 9, 2014: none

Ubuntu 13.10 AMD64 in Live Distro Bitcoin QT 0.8.6 Linux download

Start Bitcoin QT with

$ ./bin/64/bitcoin-qt -datadir=data

Open console window

$ importprivkey "xxxxxxxxx" "Label"

The adress shows up in Adress tab

$ importprivkey (same arguments)

Error .-4

The adress moves from Adress tab to Recieve tab

Behavior repeated consistently in the same environment.
cozz commented at 8:38 PM on March 9, 2014: contributor

bitcoin 0.8.6 showed addresses you own the private key in the receive tab, else in the address tab. The problem here is that we insert the address in the addressbook first and then import the private key after that. This results in the temporary bug you described. The address is shown in address tab until a refresh is triggered, then it switches to receive tab.

The bug will (probably) be fixed in bitcoin 0.9, because we explicitly assign a "receive" purpose to each imported key. @backlof Would you mind testing this with 0.9rc2 and then close this issue, if fixed. I highly assume the problem to be fixed there. Please use this version ONLY in testing environment.

https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/
backlof commented at 10:18 PM on March 9, 2014: none

I tested it with the version you linked me to, and you were correct. It works perfectly.

Good job devs!
backlof closed this on Mar 9, 2014
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