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Title: Rescanning with Mac/Terminal Post by: lakzo on February 08, 2013, 06:59:55 AM Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX? I know its something along the lines of:
open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options. Title: Re: Rescanning with Mac/Terminal Post by: Stephen Gornick on February 08, 2013, 01:03:11 PM Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX? I know its something along the lines of: open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options. I'm not a Mac user, but it appears you would, from the command window, go to the data directory: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Mac Code: $ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ Title: Re: Rescanning with Mac/Terminal Post by: lakzo on February 08, 2013, 03:23:34 PM Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX? I know its something along the lines of: open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options. I'm not a Mac user, but it appears you would, from the command window, go to the data directory: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Mac Code: $ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ Everytime I enter it into terminal it gives me the "no such file directory" message :/ Title: Re: Rescanning with Mac/Terminal Post by: SAC on February 08, 2013, 08:05:12 PM Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX? I know its something along the lines of: open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options. I'm not a Mac user, but it appears you would, from the command window, go to the data directory: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Mac Code: $ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ Everytime I enter it into terminal it gives me the "no such file directory" message :/ No wonder binaries are always in the application bundle not the support directory. Code: /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitcoin-Qt Give the above a try or put the ~ in front if you put the app in your home /Applications directory. Edit: And now I look the Code: cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ will fail every time because you have not escaped the space like so Code: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin/ that will change you to a directory with a space in it. Edit2: Unless you enjoy wasting your Time Machine backup space open its preferences and exclude everything in the ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ except your wallet.dat from being backed up, this saves you gb's of unnecessary backups all the time. Title: Re: Rescanning with Mac/Terminal Post by: gweedo on February 08, 2013, 08:37:32 PM You need to do,
Code: $ ./Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitcoin-Qt -rescan |