I am having a total nightmare with this coin. So I tried with the galaxycoin.conf file with the addnodes and that didn't work. So then I follow this advice...
Blockchain seems to be functional and my wallet syncs fine without adding a conf file or any nodes now. Just delete the galaxycoin folder in appdata if the sync fails and try again, 20 connections to the network.
...and when the new wallet opens it doesn't have my old address, so even if I let it sync, my coins aren't going to appear. So then I restore the galaxycoin appdata folder from my recycle bin and now I get this when I run the qt...
A fatal error occurred. Galaxycoin can no longer continue safely and will quit.
EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
CDB() : can't open database file blkindex.dat, error 22
C:\Users\miner\Downloads\galaxycoin12\galaxycoin\galaxycoin-qt.exe in Runaway exception
I do have a copy of the old wallet.dat but that was made when the wallet wouldn't sync and had about 1500 coins in it. There are about another 2000 coins that I would have had from a pool but since the wallet wasn't syncing I never got them. Is there any way I can sort this out or is it all borked now?
weird... I did not have problem with the sync. You may want to clean up the config dir except the peers.dat, wallet.dat and galaxycoin.conf (don't delete the 3 files, especially don't delete the wallet). Then restart the qt client, it should sync fine.
I had once problem that it seems to stuck in the middle of the sync, then I did the above, everything is sync'd fine.
What I see is that for pow/pos coins, the sync seems slower compared to the pow only coins.