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Hey all, so i had to re-install my ethereum wallet on a new pc as the old hard drive ran out of space.

I copied my Keystore file and have copied it into the newly downloaded wallet.

The wallet is taking days to fully sync, it's still about 1000 blocks away and never quite reaches 100%.

My wallet however is showing 0 ETH balance when i've checked the blockchain and it should hold approx 25 ETH.

Any idea why the wallet is not showing my balance and why it's taking so freaking long to sync?

I guess you're on the wrong fork. Are you using the latest ethereum wallet 0.8.7?

Download here: https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases (https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases)

i think the eth wallet is horrible. i used my keys here: https://www.myetherwallet.com
and i installed jaxx and transferred everything to a new address.

thanks i'm on the 0.8.7 release but the wallet never syncs, it's always 1000-2000 blocks behind and my balance still doesnt show up.  the eth transactions are from April this year so i dont understand why they're not there?  Will my balance be carried over with the hardfork that happened a couple of months ago?

I think i'll use the myetherwallet thing as mentioned above.

and don't forget to ckeck if you have some ETC. just in case you had your ETH before this hard fork. you can check this be using this website: https://elaineo.github.io/etherwallet/#generate-wallet

Are you on the ETC CRIMINAL COIN chain? If so it's probably been stolen.

Almost exactly the same thing has happened to me.
I guess I will have to wait until they release a half way decent client, then I will get my ETH back.

You do realise that you don't need a fully synced wallet to spend you ETH?

yeh i know, i've got 0.8.7 running on one pc and 0.8.6 running on another and neither of them ever sync, they've been running for a week almost now and always 1000 blocks behind or more.  Neither of them see my ETH balance either.

I log into My Ether wallet, import my keystore file and bang, my full balance is there.  I've transferred it out to a Jaxx wallet now and backed it all up.  Ethererum wallet/Mist can get stuffed, not wasting my time with their wallets any more.

Use Geth.

So let them get stuffed for the meantime then get back to them when you're happier with their products and services provided.

I suggest that you nuke your blockchain data and reload again from scratch with "geth --fast".
Make a backup of your keystore first, this is always a good idea.
This thread could be helpful as well: http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/603/help-with-very-slow-mist-sync (http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/603/help-with-very-slow-mist-sync)

I couldn't catch up previously because the blocks downloaded so slowly.
I had heard that it is partially because I had an HDD, so I now have a SSD and decided to delete my chaindata and download the whole chain again.

That is where the problem came from. I know you can spend without being up to date, but you can't if your wallet shows up as being empty, even when it isn't.