Timeline for How many addresses do I have to reattach after a snapshot?

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Dec 11, 2017 at 20:22	comment	added	BugFreeSoftware		Make sure you definitely do this, because otherwise you open yourself up to multi-spending from those previously used addresses.
Dec 11, 2017 at 20:21	comment	added	BugFreeSoftware		No, addresses are not really pruned. Only transactions. The snapshot will restart from a list of all addresses with non-zero balance. But you will still have to reattach every single one you ever used manually after every snapshot. Even the empty ones. Because the wallet generates them from index 0. The wallet uses the transactions involving the addresses to keep track of which addresses it has used before. A snapshot will wipe those out. Therefore you need to reattach them all. So they show up as 0i transactions and the wallet knows they were used before.
Dec 11, 2017 at 18:59	comment	added	aboose♦		You're right about the stateful wallet, I got it backwards. For the snapshot part though, each time there is a snapshot old addresses are pruned, correct? So to me, each snapshot, you would have less and less addresses to re-generate.
Dec 11, 2017 at 18:58	history	edited	aboose♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 1 character in body
Dec 11, 2017 at 7:32	history	edited	aboose♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	edited body
Dec 11, 2017 at 7:31	comment	added	BugFreeSoftware		Sorry you are mixing stuff up. 1. The current wallet is stateless. It has to get its state from the Tangle at every action. What you mean is that the state of the wallet is stored locally instead, hence it will be a stateful wallet. 2. Snapshots have nothing to do with the amount of addresses you have to manage. In fact more frequent snapshotting means that you would have to do the reattach loop with the current wallet more frequent as well.
Dec 10, 2017 at 20:34	history	answered	aboose♦	CC BY-SA 3.0