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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: btoole on August 31, 2013, 02:02:19 PM



Title: block reindexing
Post by: btoole on August 31, 2013, 02:02:19 PM
Running latest Bitcoin QT on a MBA that has been crashing a lot of late I need to reindex blocks it seems every week. Takes days and max's out my processor so its very troublesome. Anyway to relocate files to an external drive or run the block indexing process on a remote server [ Linux / Softalicious ] ? Apologizes if I am missing some key issues in this query. Don't want to run anything with Java or host with an online wallet [ remember Bitcoinica ? ]. Suggestions ?

Thanks very much


Title: Re: block reindexing
Post by: sva_h4cky0 on August 31, 2013, 02:21:16 PM
use Electrum or Multibit  ;D


Title: Re: block reindexing
Post by: btoole on August 31, 2013, 02:29:40 PM
Multibit requires Java and Electrum is slightly above my pay grade to install  :)


Title: Re: block reindexing
Post by: grue on August 31, 2013, 02:58:27 PM
Anyway to relocate files to an external drive
see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin (check the "datadir" option)

or run the block indexing process on a remote server [ Linux / Softalicious ] ?
You can't do that. You can, however, run the bitcoind process on a VPS and execute API calls on that instance.


Title: Re: block reindexing
Post by: btoole on August 31, 2013, 03:51:42 PM
Quote
see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin (check the "datadir" option)

This is very helpful - thank you. I shall take a swing at the Bitcoin.conf file