Guys  -out of curiosity - am I the only absolute novice on this forum? I mean, I still don't even understand Crypto very well, and I have no clue what proof of stake actually means. All I know is that fiat currencies are eventually going to crumble because it's artificially maintained in spite of debt and incessant printing of money. 

Extract them according to this instruction
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.msg24585723#msg24585723
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Thanks, Warren. You're a good man. It's working (!) I went from 7% to 97%.

Incidentally, Leilo - please don't dump them Mints. They seem fresher than Menthos.  Power to the people (!)

Peaces

1. Roughly 5GB
2. Addresses are on wallet.dat and is separated from snapshot. (Backup wallet.dat!)
3. Yes as long as the transaction has been confirmed.

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Thanks for these useful answers.  I finished downloading the Snapshot. It's folder that contains the following files:

blk0001.dat
blk0002.dat
db.log
log.0000000038
txleveldb folder with a bunch of .sst files

I have no clue what to do with all this    Sorry, I am that much of a novice at this. So how do I use these files to synchronise my wallet more quickly? I thought I would just download the Snapshot and press a magic install button.

Peaces

Hi guys

I am a super novice at all this altcoin business. I made a bit of money from 5 Litecoins over the last week, and decided to use some of it to buy Mintcoin through Cryptopia because the concept sounded legitimate and promising. 

And then downloaded the v2 Mintcoin wallet on my Mac and transferred all my Mintcoins to it.

The problem is that I had not waited for my wallet to synch before making the transfer. And the transfer is reaaaaaallly slow. So this raises a few questions:

1) how much disk space does synching the Mintcoin wallet take?
2) apparently the MintCoin Snapshot is means to be quicker, and I am downloading it now.  But will that have a different address than the wallet I originally transferred my Mintcoins to? How do I make sure my address stays the same so I actually receive the icy fresh Mint.
3) will I receive my Mintcoins?!

Sorry if some of these questions have been answered. Again, I have ZERO knowledge in altcoins, and it seems that I got involved in Mintcoins which requires an advanced understanding of these things. 

Much peace