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Title: Transaction not received Post by: Klortho on April 30, 2011, 02:59:14 AM I'm brand new to bitcoin, and yesterday I installed the client and fired it up, and then immediately went and bought some bitcoins. I got an email form the seller, saying "Bitcoins have shipped". But then I realized that I was behind a firewall (at work), and my client wasn't connected. By the time I figured out how to move my wallet to my home computer, so that I could connect to the network with the original receiver bitcoin address, a whole day had gone by. Now, I have waited (connected) about an hour, but still don't see the transaction.
Is this normal? Does the transaction have to be acknowledged by the receiver before it gets added to a block? If so, does the sender periodically resend the transactions? Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: PLATO on April 30, 2011, 03:01:18 AM You need to download the whole blockchain before tx show up. You should see "120960" as of 04.29.11.
edit: welcome to Bitcoin! check out my Bitcoin Roadtrip: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4752.0 Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: riX on April 30, 2011, 03:03:15 AM You probably don't have all blocks downloaded yet, check your receiving address balance at http://blockexplorer.com/address/insert-your-bitcoin-address-here
Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: Klortho on April 30, 2011, 03:16:52 AM Alas, all blocks received, still no coins (see screenshot*). I see the balance at http://blockexplorer.com/address/17QsAdFUQYG6QNqmD3g5jmzjrfgrrod6BV.
I wonder, could it be because I swapped wallets after the blocks had downloaded? If I go and delete the database and re-download, the coins will show up? Seems like there ought to be a better way. * Nevermind about the screenshot -- forum says "uploader is full". Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: riX on April 30, 2011, 03:26:25 AM Start the client with the -rescan switch. (Or with -? for more commands).
Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: PLATO on April 30, 2011, 06:44:48 AM Backup your wallet.dat (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet#Locating_BitCoin_s_data_directory) file so if you fuck it up somehow you have a hope of getting the coins back.
The -rescan option should probably work. To use this, you will need to browse to the directory where bitcoin.exe is (in win7 it's easy, shift-right click inside the directory and click 'open command window here'), Then type bitcoin.exe -rescan at the command prompt, it should rescan the block chain and start the client. Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: Klortho on April 30, 2011, 01:08:25 PM Brilliant. Thanks for the help, the rescan option works.
Thanks for the tip about the wallet backup as well -- already done! Title: Re: Transaction not received Post by: Odin-Zifer on May 18, 2011, 03:11:38 AM Thanks fixed my issue
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