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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: mrmatt on January 14, 2014, 04:01:51 AM



Title: Bitcoin QT Mac: Importing Blocks from Disk (3 hours and counting).
Post by: mrmatt on January 14, 2014, 04:01:51 AM
I downloaded bootstrap.dat, put it in my Bitcoin directory and now I get:  Bitcoin QT:  Importing Blocks from Disk (3 hours and counting)...

Can anyone tell me if this process will end and if so, how long I should expect to wait?  Is there any way to tell how much time is left or progess being made?  Like a block count or something?

Thanks


Title: Re: Bitcoin QT Mac: Importing Blocks from Disk (3 hours and counting).
Post by: cp1 on January 14, 2014, 04:03:33 AM
At the bottom right it should show the block it's on.  It takes a while, depending on your CPU, it has to go through every block and validate it.