I recently switched from a Windows 7 machine to a newer Windows 10 machine. Upon installing a new Bisq on the W10 machine, I found that I had lost my transaction records and my ‘signed’ status (of course). So I un-installed the new Bisq from W10. I then did the following:
I just moved Bisq from my Windows 7 machine to a new Windows 10 machine.
(Note: Messing with the registry can be dangerous, so best backup your complete machine before preceding. As long as you are only dealing with the Bisq folders, you shouldn’t have problems.)
- Copied/transfered the Bisq installation folder from W7 to same location in W10 via a USB drive.
- Copied/transfered a copy of the ‘C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\Bisq’ folder from W7 to same location on W10 via a USB drive. (There was another Bisq folder in C:\Users*your user name*\AppData\Local\Microsoft… folder, but I didn’t copy it because it pertains to Microsoft.)
- I searched through the W7 machine registry with regedit.exe for the word ‘Bisq’ and using the ‘File/Export…’ menu item, highlighted the Bisq key folders in the left pane, and exported every Bisq key (3 in all) into a USB drive, copied them to the W10 machine, and double clicked on each of them that automatically installs them into the W10 registry. Only one refused to install.
- I started Bisq in my W10 machine and everything runs OK just as it was on my W7 machine. Nothing was lost.