Announcement: COLONY USERS
In the install process, it asks you to input a wallet private key. The default key is hard coded to the local Autonomi testnet wallet key. You MUST replace the default with a key that you generated from elsewhere, like MetaMask OR you can just run in download mode. Please DO NOT under any circumstances, send real tokens to that default wallet address, bots will scrape those tokens up within seconds. @zettawatt will be making a fix tonight to make the default randomly generated to prevent this from happening in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Colony v1.0.0 RC10 fixes the default wallet key issue
Download the latest release and this is fixed. The private key is randomly generated during initialization, so no more worries about bots scraping your tokens when using that address. NOTE: In my opinion it is better to use a wallet key from a proper wallet like MetaMask vs this simple randomly generated key.
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App image dont work for me ( arch linux - actually BlendOS)
Setup does not allow to change the default private key. BUT I was able to ADD a new wallet afterwards
Uploads seem to work fine, Downloads not really.
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Yeah that’s most certainly not the app but the current state of the network…
But funny that uploads are working 
Is it just an issue with data object that existed pre upgrade?
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Thanks for the report. When you say the app image didn’t work, what do you mean? Did it never start? Did throw an error message and crash? Just a sanity check, you marked the file as executable?
Same for changing the default key during startup. What feedback from the app were you seeing? Was it rejecting your key?
Like @riddim said on the uploads/downloads, I’m at the mercy of the network at the moment. Hopefully things stabilize again soon.
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A window opens but nothing happens.
From terminal :
Dependencies ?
Display environnement ?
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I did some research. Sound like this problem comes up in other Tauri apps on various flavors of Arch. Something to do with the webkit libraries underneath that render the GUI. Other folks are saying that Wayland can cause issues. One post I saw said if you extract the AppImage and run the AppRun executable within it may work. So if you do this:
./colony-app_1.0.0_amd64.AppImage --appimage-extract
cd squashfs-root
./AppRun
Does that open the app?
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Uploaded some more old books this evening with the colony_uploader:
[########################################] 5/5 All directories processed
✅ worksofedgaralle01poee Success
✅ qurn02palm Success
✅ TheMahabharata_201512 Success
✅ beowulf-francis-gummere Success
✅ the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead_202401 Success
📊 Upload Summary:
📁 Files uploaded: 13
💾 Total size: 146.28 MB (153388536 bytes)
✅ Successful directories: 5
💰 Total cost (ANT): 0.0001
⛽ Total cost (ETH): 0.0003
💰 Final wallet balance: 0.0077 ETH
📤 Metadata uploaded to Autonomi
⏱️ Total time: 14m 3s
🎉 All uploads completed successfully!
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this part is funny, 3times more ETH than ANT 
basically 99% of the cost is for the accounting mechanism (blockchain). I hope it can be optimized somehow in the future, it would be a shame to send money to ETH validators instead of our valuable node runners. But apart from that, thank you for all of your great work!! It’s awesome seeing these uploads! 
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Colony Utils v0.2.10 released
- Updated to the latest autonomi crate
- Better scratchpad error handling
Latest binaries can be found here: Release Release v0.2.10 · zettawatt/colony-utils · GitHub
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Colony Utils v0.2.11 released
- Enhancements for flakey network issues. Basically handles the case where if scratchpads/pointers can’t be found on the network, the sync operation will continue and rebuild the local cache to the best of its ability with the information it finds.
Latest binaries can be found here: Release Release v0.2.11 · zettawatt/colony-utils · GitHub
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