<p>The balance will return as soon as the client catches up with the network.</p>

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2012-12-09T23:41:40.077Z
2012-12-09T23:41:40.077Z
Pieter Wuille
<p>I recently restored my wallet.dat file from another machine. The wallet.dat came from a Linux machine (debian), and was restored to a Windows bitcoin install. </p>

<p>After restoring I can see the correct bitcoin address, but the balance is 0 BTC. The client is still downloading the block-chain (152,000 blocks at time of writing).</p>

<p>When will the balance show? It should have a balance of 0.66 BTC.</p>

<p>The wallet was restored using the answer from this question: <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/324/how-can-i-restore-a-wallet-dat-file">How can I restore my wallet?</a></p>

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Wallet balance zero after restoring wallet.dat
FattyPotatoes
# Wallet balance zero after restoring wallet.dat

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-12-09)

I recently restored my wallet.dat file from another machine. The wallet.dat came from a Linux machine (debian), and was restored to a Windows bitcoin install.

After restoring I can see the correct bitcoin address, but the balance is 0 BTC. The client is still downloading the block-chain (152,000 blocks at time of writing).

When will the balance show? It should have a balance of 0.66 BTC.

The wallet was restored using the answer from this question: [How can I restore my wallet?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/324/how-can-i-restore-a-wallet-dat-file)

**Tags:** wallet, balance, wallet-recovery


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2012-12-09. Score: 12 | Accepted answer

The balance will return as soon as the client catches up with the network.


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