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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: William-Clayton on December 03, 2013, 02:22:18 PM



Title: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: William-Clayton on December 03, 2013, 02:22:18 PM
I have been mining with a couple of USB asic block erupters for about a month now. Nothing serious, yet. However when I decided to update my wallet, as I am close to my first payout from the mining pool I am in, my wallet has a warning on the top of the Overview screen. Warning: Displayed transactions may not be correct. You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade. I am using bitcoin-qt 8.5. I tried to download a newer version, however it was also 8.5.

Any help here in this matter would be greatly appreciated.



Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: William-Clayton on December 03, 2013, 02:57:32 PM
I hate to bump my own post, however I did forget to mention I am currently stuck synchronizing with the network , 3 weeks behind. I have had no progress in the past 8 hours I have been trying to sync it.

Restarting doesn't help, I still get the afore mentioned warning, and I am stuck at processed 268351 of 272832.

Again any help would be appreciated.


Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: totemITnow on December 03, 2013, 03:06:11 PM
I hate to bump my own post, however I did forget to mention I am currently stuck synchronizing with the network , 3 weeks behind. I have had no progress in the past 8 hours I have been trying to sync it.

Restarting doesn't help, I still get the afore mentioned warning, and I am stuck at processed 268351 of 272832.

Again any help would be appreciated.


You may delete the blockchain manually and the client redownload it again. Worked for me.

But make sure you dont delete wallet.dat


Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: William-Clayton on December 03, 2013, 03:22:31 PM
I am uncertain as to how to do that. I can not find a wallet.dat file. I see wallet.cpp wallet.h walletdb.cpp and walletdb.h.

Could you be very specific on how to do what you say?


Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: majorX on December 03, 2013, 03:30:24 PM
I am uncertain as to how to do that. I can not find a wallet.dat file. I see wallet.cpp wallet.h walletdb.cpp and walletdb.h.

Could you be very specific on how to do what you say?

Here you will locate where Bitcoin's data files are stored
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory



Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: William-Clayton on December 03, 2013, 03:50:36 PM
I am uncertain as to how to do that. I can not find a wallet.dat file. I see wallet.cpp wallet.h walletdb.cpp and walletdb.h.

Could you be very specific on how to do what you say?

Here you will locate where Bitcoin's data files are stored
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory



Okay that is helping, In the folder users>name>AppData>Roaming> Bitcoin

I have a Wallet and it says it's a Gom Media File (.dat) 80KB. Is this the file I save then uninstall everything else and rerun the exe. then put this file in there?


Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: totemITnow on December 03, 2013, 04:20:08 PM

Okay that is helping, In the folder users>name>AppData>Roaming> Bitcoin

I have a Wallet and it says it's a Gom Media File (.dat) 80KB. Is this the file I save then uninstall everything else and rerun the exe. then put this file in there?


Close Bitcoin-qt (not only to system tray)
Make backup of users>name>AppData>Roaming> Bitcoin folder
Keep wallet.dat, and delete all other files and sub directories.
Run Bitcoin-qt and wait for the blockchain to download again, you should not get stuck again at block 268351 of 272832


Title: Re: Wallet QT, may need to upgrade?
Post by: William-Clayton on December 03, 2013, 04:36:14 PM

Okay that is helping, In the folder users>name>AppData>Roaming> Bitcoin

I have a Wallet and it says it's a Gom Media File (.dat) 80KB. Is this the file I save then uninstall everything else and rerun the exe. then put this file in there?


Close Bitcoin-qt (not only to system tray)
Make backup of users>name>AppData>Roaming> Bitcoin folder
Keep wallet.dat, and delete all other files and sub directories.
Run Bitcoin-qt and wait for the blockchain to download again, you should not get stuck again at block 268351 of 272832

Thanks, it's syncing from the beginning now. Hopefully it won't get stuck on that block again.