confusing warning message #647

issue dooglus opened this issue on November 20, 2011
  1. dooglus commented at 10:08 PM on November 20, 2011: contributor

    Running tests on rc6, I sent 1 BTC to a new wallet, and now am trying to send it back so I can delete the test wallet.

    I've been trying for almost 24 hours, but it won't let me send the 1 BTC back - probably because it wants to add the fee on.

    If I ask to send 0.99995 BTC instead, it tells me:

    "This transaction is over the size limit."
    

    which makes no sense at all to a new user. They're going to think size = quantity of BTC.

    But it doesn't really make any sense to me either. i only have one key in use, it's not making up a bigger transaction from multiple coins. There's no change. I would have thought this is about the smallest transaction possible.

    So the message is confusing to a new user, and also pretty much incorrect, unless the "size limit" is seen as something dynamic which depends on the amount being transferred and the age of the coins involved.

  2. laanwj commented at 8:14 PM on November 24, 2011: member

    Yes, the message is confusing. The size limit is in kB and not in coins, but it confused me too at first.

    Feel free to propose a better message :)

  3. laanwj commented at 5:12 PM on April 2, 2012: member

    Closing as duplicate of #353

  4. laanwj closed this on Apr 2, 2012

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