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sent a 1BTC txn between wallets with no txn fee two weeks ago, still not confirmed.  What should I do?

the txn shows up in block explorer.  So It's a matter of no miners accepting it.

Uhm do your bitcoin client have ALL the blocks?

blockexplorer shows in what block the transaction appears in (second line from the top)
no block for your tx?

http://blockexplorer.com/t/8dAJgY9s15

yes

so when u txn r u dng t r? C, js fr btc n txn ll 2 do it.

I have the same problem with a transaction I made in may. Still 0/unconfirmed, and no one could explain why.
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8048.msg160224#msg160224

OP and carlerha, have you tried running bitcoin with the -rescan option to force it to check the blocks again, just in case?

this is actually a serious issue if default txn fee is still 0.  many people will wind up sending without realizing.

The default transaction fee is no longer zero, and that makes people mad too.  Still seems unlikely that a transaction would be in limbo for so long simply because it's free.  There are plenty of blocks that still go by without transaction fees at all, and the online wallet services don't send a fee by default either, and I've done several of those kind of transactions over the past couple of weeks and had to wait 30 minutes at the most.  If your transaction didn't make it out to the network, that would explain it as well.

I see.  No, it's not a matter of miners not accepting it.  If the transaction is visable in block explorer, then it had to have been accepted by all of the clients between you and blockexplorer as valid.

I recommend a -rescan.  It's most likely that your client just missed it for some reason.

I see.  How do you rescan in windows?  would redownloading the blockchain do it?

Yes, but that is unnecessary.  Stop the client, and give it about 10 minutes to really stop.  And make sure that it's not hiding in the dock.  After your delay, restart the client from a command line with the -rescan flag, and it will sit there for some time rechecking the blockchain and rebuilding your index.

thank you MoonShadow.

We need a Rescan button inside the client...

Not a button, but perhaps a menu option.

the block explorer shows a block for your tx. i.e. a miner has accepted it.

must be a problem on your end, your tx is in the block chain.

PLEASE for the love of english ~?!?~!?!~??!~#!@%

According to blockexplorer your transaction was accepted into a block two weeks ago:

+1

I had a similar situation when screwing around with my wallet.dat file. I couldn't figure out the whole rescan thing so I just backed up my wallet.dat in several places and with as many versions as I had saved. Then I deleted the client and all the folders including all the downloaded block data files.  Reinstalled, restored my wallet.dat, and waited a few hours for the blocks to download an once the block chain got up to my transaction it started confirming finally.

Good luck

+1. Timm, did you TEXT that in somehow, or are you doing that for effect?

I replied using shortened useless-texting jargon to emphasize how I detest people who use things like 'u' to save two letters, or 'txn' to save themselves typing "transaction".

I was feeling extra-snarky today.