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I need a helpful suggestion from anybody that have good knowledge about ethereum platform.
I downloaded mist wallet and all went well after installations, i was able to see my wallet address but i did not mind the last block found which i later discovered that it was 47 years ago (Not exaggerating).
The problem:
After generating my wallet address, i sent some ether into the address, the etherscan have shown 64 confirmations and not is showing on the wallet because it does not synchronize.
Any helpful suggestion as regards the recovery of my funds?

Well do you have any connections to the ethereum network? Also you can use myetherwallet to send the ethereum if you can export the private key.

If its what I have witnessed before with mist, then you won't see it until you synchronize it up till the latest block then you refressh the page and everything will show. The way mist is configured, to the best of my knowledge, until when you synchronize which might take two or three days depending on internet or the peers you can see, you won't see your transactions. Hope this helps.

Go to folder roaming -->etherum -->keystore.In folder import key to myetherwallet.

maybe connections to the ethereum your network not good, try you fix!!

Nobody have monopoly of knowledge, can you please explain better about how to import this to myetherwallet ?

To other suggestions, i have access to the mist wallet but i doubt it will ever get synchronized because my server connections for this seasons is very slow.

You can use MyEtherWallet "view wallet details" function to extract private key from wallet json file. Feel free to use its offline version on an air gapped computer to secure your private key.

Here: https://www.myetherwallet.com/#view-wallet-info

That should help you getting the needed private key and then sending vai that service too.

I also found a useful tutorial at https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/465/how-to-import-a-plain-private-key-into-geth-or-mist but i shall still send bounty to helpful suggestions once i am able to get the funds back.

Paste the key into a text file, save it to disk and use the path to that file with geth account import. Here are some example Windows instructions that might help:

Open Notepad
Paste key into notepad without any extra characters or quotations
Save the file as nothing_special_delete_me.txt at C:\
Run the command, geth account import C:\nothing_special_delete_me.txt
After successful import, delete the file at C:\nothing_special_delete_me.txt
If you do not have geth installed already, do the following steps after step 3, and the continue to step 4:

Open command prompt (cmd.exe).
Inside the Command Prompt, type the following command to go to the folder containing your Geth.exe file: cd c:\Ethereum-Wallet-win64-0-7-3\resources\node\geth (insert your correct path there)

I have to say a big thank you to all the contributors to my thread, i have to update this thread and probably change the topic for future reference should someone have a similar problem.
How to import your mist/ethereum wallet into your myetherwallet account.
Signup at www.myetherwallet.com and write down all your credential (very important)
Open your mist/ethereum wallet and click on my account then click on backup which will display keystore.in and geth.
Copy the keystore.in on your desktop for easy access.
Visit https://www.myetherwallet.com/#send-transaction and select Keystore File (UTC / JSON)
You shall be prompt with Select Your Wallet File option, click on it and upload your keystore.in from your desktop, put your mist/ether wallet password and decrypt.
This is all the process.

I have withdrawn my ether.