Protoshares Wallet Upgrade
There is some confusion about the new Protoshares wallet. After some reading, I think I can distill the changes into some easily digestible facts:
The name is changing from Protoshares to Bitshares-PTS for legal reasons.
The new OS X client can be downloaded here. It's safe to download it and copy it to your Applications folder, but don't open it yet.
Open your old Protoshares client and backup your wallet to the desktop. Name it wallet.dat.
Now launch the new Bitshares-PTS wallet. When it launches, it will create the directory structure inside ~/Library/Application Support/Bitshares-PTS
Quit the BitShares-PTS Application now that you have your needed directory.
cd into that directory from the command line ( cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/BitShares-PTS/ ) and rename the wallet.dat to wallet.dat.old (mv ./wallet.dat ./wallet.dat.old ) The backslash that you see needs to be there to escape the space in the directory name.
Now copy your wallet.dat file from the Desktop into this directory ( cp ~/Desktop/wallet.dat ./ )
Launch your Bitshares-PTS Application and you should have your original PTS address under the addresses tab. If you don't, do not panic. During this process, we did not delete any files.
My Bitshares-PTS wallet went through the process of showing unconfirmed and confirmed balances for the next 30 minutes until everything was back in sync. Just an FYI so you don't freak out while this is going on.














