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  Coins never get to wallet or error out
  

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  It's a known problems with the Sia wallet. Once it has too many transaction inputs in the wallet database it chokes and can't send large transactions anymore. The Devs are currently working on solving this and it should be fixed in the next release (1.1.0).

  Someone from shapeshift also just joined the slack to ask what's up with the wallet. They're a lot more responsive than the poloniex staff 😀

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  How to cancel contracts?
  

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  We currently don't have a way to stop the contracts from renewing. We are sorry for this oversight, and will add the feature soon.

  If you delete the 'renter' folder in the sia persistent directory (varies by OS), it will stop renewing.

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  How did i just spent 170k sc ?!
  

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  @EvoSteven what ever happened? I'm in a similar boat and it's been over 12 weeks...

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  Quiting SIA, how do i get back collateral & allowance?
  

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  I put up a directory as a host a while ago, but it pretty much deducted the entire amount of an incomining original transaction - how do I get that amount back? It's not showing in my wallet and it's been more than 12 weeks. Is it lost because that pc with the host went down? Why was it that amount, I thought it would be much much less...not some arbitrary incoming transaction amnount!

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  Restore question
  

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  Currently you can get all your siacoins back using just the wallet seed. You CANNOT do the same with the files.

  To get your files back, you need a recent copy of the renter folder. We understand that this is a pretty big ask, and we are working in the direction of being able to recover all files using only the wallet seed. This will probably be ready in 2017, but likely not until late 2017.

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  I withdrew Siacoin via Sia wallet, but status is unconfirmed forever.
  

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  OK. I'm waiting for that.

  Thank you so much

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  Corrupt Host Folder paths
  

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  exited Sia-UI (Quit from taskbar icon), waited for all processes to end made a copy of %appdata%/host/storagemanager/storagemanager.json Checked that all the symlinks were correct Opened storagemanager.json in Notepad++ Noted that the first entry was 100% correct, but the remaining entries all had the same UID, which also did not correspond to any of the symlinks converted the missing symlinks from hex to Base64 using http://tomeko.net/online_tools/hex_to_base64.php?lang=en , and replaced the erroneous entries with the proper UID and Path. Note that I did not change any of the other values, like the Size, SizeRemaining, etc saved the file and opened Sia-UI. Unlocked Wallet. Everything looks good in the UI, except the SizeRemaining of the folders being inaccurate. From the terminal (in SIA-UI) I ran host folder remove N:\ and could see (via Resource Monitor) that the files in N:\ were being copied to C:\Sia1\Storage\ - however after this was finished, all the files were still in N: (and a quick check showed that all the files appeared to be in C:\Sia1\Storage\ as well), and the terminal gave the error: Could not remove folder: could not successfully offload specified number of sectors from storage folder - this cannot actually be due to the lack of available space as there is over 930GB available in C:\Sia1\Storage\. Replicated this with the other 3 erroneous folders, same results (only tried one at a time of course)
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  not enough hosts in hostdb for sector calculation get 0 but needed 24
  

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  It seems your hostdb is empty, i.e. Sia is not aware of any available hosts. It could be that you are not fully synch'ed with the network, or something else. I would leave things running for a few hours, then go to the Terminal plugin and type hostdb and report back the result here.

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  What is the max intensity Marlin supports?
  

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  Getting mad with announce problem
  

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  It's a port forwarding problem >> Could not announce host: missing port in address 192.168.1.70

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  Siac - Cannot send coins due to incomplete transactions? help!
  

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  Typically it is good enough to wait a few blocks. Sia will not spend unconfirmed money because it means that a whole series of transactions can fail if just one transaction is double-spent (whether accidentally or on purpose).

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  My computer crashed and sia became that……
  

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  hmm, we have file protections in place that should prevent these types of failures during crashes. You may have to delete a few of the settings files.

  To the best of my knowledge, these types of crashes only happen on Windows, both Mac and Linux have safer filesystems. Still, I would like to find out how we can prevent these issues on Windows as well.

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  When do I need to top up with more coins
  

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  Yeah, you will need to perform another 'SetAllowance', to increase the allowance to large enough to support your spending habits :)

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  Can I migrate contract/file metadata from one siad to another?
  

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  consensus/ explorer/ gateway/ host/ miner/ renter/ transactionpool/ wallet/

  Most people will not have the explorer, but you should have all of the others if you are running a default client. Some specialized clients will be missing more folders than just the explorer.

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  Does sia need files on disk to be able to repair
  

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  Currently the data needs to be on disk, but the next major upgrade to the renter will feature repair from redundant Sia network sources.

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  How to use the .sia file for sharing files?
  

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  Thank you.

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  Help me understand contracs on a basic level
  

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  The best thing to do is probably read this post: http://forum.sia.tech/topic/108/how-sia-works

  In the future we may be coming out with more detailed guides for understanding the contracts that get made on the Sia network, which will probably correspond with adding API endpoints to let developers make their own contracts, instead of having the renter do all of the work for them.

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  Not receiving SiaCoin till 2 weeks
  

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  Poloniex should give you a transaction id that you can put into the explorer at https://explore.sia.tech

  If the transaction is not found in the explorer, contact Poloniex support. If there is no transaction id, contact poloniex support.

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  What data is needed to retrieive uploaded files?
  

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  You need the entire renter/ folder to recover your uploaded files. At some point in the moderate future (1-3 years), we will be able to add extensions so that you can recover everything using just the seed, but that is not possible today.

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  Do I need to have the siad running to take care of my uploaded files?
  

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  I should add, if you go more than 12 weeks without running Sia, you are pretty much guaranteed to lose all of your files.