node crash and cant find smeshing directory after a reinstall

[picaye]

Environment

• Smapp version: 1.4.6
• Node version: 1.4.6
• OS: Windows 11

Describe the bug

Had to reinstall spacemesh. after reinstall it does not load my proof of space files located at d:\smeshing - and node reports repea
app-log.1.4.6.txt
spacemesh-log-7c8cef2b.txt
tedly crashes

Steps to reproduce

start spacemesh. crashes.

Expected behavior

should start smeshing

Logs

[fasmat]

The node was started with C:\Users\pino\post\7c8cef2b as post directory. Since this PoST directory did not contain any key.bin file a new identity was initialized for your node in C:\Users\pino\AppData\Roaming\Spacemesh\node-data\7c8cef2b\identities\local.key.

You ran with this configuration from 2024-04-12 ~ 02:40 until ~ 11:45 and then changed your configuration to use d:\smeshing as your PoST data directory which also contained a key (d:\smeshing\key.bin). Now your node is confused about which of those keys it is supposed to use.

Be careful not to mix keys and PoST data directories or your node will not be able to properly participate in the network.

To fix your issue, stop your node and open your C:\Users\pino\AppData\Roaming\Spacemesh\node-data\7c8cef2b\identities directory. Rename local.key (to e.g. local.key.bak). Copy d:\smeshing\key.bin to the identities directory and name it local.key and in the d:\smeshing directory rename it to key.bin.bak. That should allow your node to start again.

I'd recommend to keep the backup of your keys, but you can delete the *.bak files if everything works as expected.

[brusherru]

@picaye did it solve the problem?