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I have downloaded the Ethereum Mist Wallet for the first time, however when I open the wallet, it takes too long for syncing of the blockchain data files to complete. Isn't there a faster way to do this? It is taking hours to be able to access the Mist wallet itself. I would gladly appreciate your help.  :)

Sorry I cannot help you as I use the geth CLI. That too takes time to sync.

Not really on topic but, I think the design could be better. Everything seems too low contrast and not organized in the most intuitive manner.
Hopefully this will improve with time.

I have tried Geth as well but I am facing the same issues as you mate. If there were something similar like a bootstrap.dat (like in Bitcoin) where you could download and place on the appdata directory, then it would really speed things up. Is there any way to download blockchain files? (chaindata directory)  :)

Not that I am aware of, unless you had a friend offer one up. It took me about 2-3 hours from scratch to download everything and get up and running. I recently had to reinstall a Bitcoin wallet and the download took close to two days, so to me this was a breeze (A bit paranoid with security so I don't trust bootstrap files). Of course a lot of it will depend on your connection speed, but now that the Ethereum blockchain data files are close to 10 GB, it will take a while.

Yeah I looked into that myself but couldn't find anything. Ended up leaving geth running over some days. Now the node appears to be running fine. I agree the Mist client needs work.

Thanks for your reply. I am just going to leave the Mist wallet running on my PC for several hours until ti finishes sync. I hope that in the future, as the Ethereum blockchain grows, we will get the ability to sync faster (or maybe blockchain could be compressed for less space and faster sync rates.) As soon as I am synced, I will transfer some ETH into it and experiment with the wallet itself.  :)

You can use geth and create an account and start experimenting that way.

Thanks for your advice. As for geth, I need to wait for it to get fully synced to be able to use it right? (like Mist wallet) Because, I have made an account but each time I open geth with "geth console" command, it quickly displays a message that says: Block Synchronization Started.  :)

close the window that's syncing then open another and use geth for the account. I wasn't fully synced to use a geth account.

Thank you. I will try this as soon as I get home. Just one more thing though, how do I activate geth in localhost RPC mode? Just asking because, I saw this on a dapp, which said "Make sure Geth is in localhost RPC mode" Anyways, I will try to get things up and running with my ETH account.  :)

Is it not set by default? Sorry I don't know as I never configured rpc although looking at the geth help it's something like: geth --rpc --rpcaddress ip --rpcport port

Thanks for this information. I think that it may be set by default, but just to be safe I will set up the values myself with the provided commands at geth help.  :)

P.S. My Mist wallet is nearly synced and almost ready for action.  ;D

Sweet. If you want to test sending ETH to someone let me know. :)