I finally got it to work and have now succesfully transfered my bitcoin to a more userfriendly wallet.

Now I'll just have to do battle with trying to access my coins from the various forks, I'm sure that will be easy peasy!   

Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!

Ok, I tried restarting the entire system and this time it has actually started building databases, the bar is at 9% and says 2 hours expected build time.

Node is still offline.

I'll get back to you with a status report tomorrow morning, it past 1 am here now.

Ah, ok. Well, in that folder there's a 'ArmoryDB' file but not a 'ArmoryDB.exe' file? Are those 2 the same?

You said:

3) Open the command line, browse to your Armory installation folder and run ArmoryDB.exe

In my Armory installation folder (C:\Users\hykki_000\AppData\Roaming\Armory\) there is no ArmoryDB.exe file.

Am I supposed to look elsewhere.

I tried starting it up again affer the changes in 1+2, it still doesn't connect and after approx. 5 hours  still says 'Preparing Databases' with NO movement at all on the bars.

In fact, when I browse to the Armory folder there isn't any 'ArmoryDB.exe' file listed there....?
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I found out how to do this from the prompt, but is says the file doesn't exist (which makes sense as it is not in the folder in the first place)

In fact, when I browse to the Armory folder there isn't any 'ArmoryDB.exe' file listed there....?

Thank you very much for your reply.

I've done point 1 and 2, but when trying point 3 it says 'access is denied'.

I'm not really familiar with working in the prompt, is there another way of starting it?

Somebody please help before I lose the will to live.

I'm about 50 hours in my 3rd attempt to get Armory to work.

I've read through all the posts and tried every tip I could find, but I still can't get the damn thing to work.

I've spent another month downloading the full node all over again, it is 100% updated.

I have downloaded the latest version of Armory and configured to the best of my ability.

I have done the mapping (having the files on an external drive).

Finally, at 2 am this morning I was ready to start up Armory.

I did, it connected and went 'Online', then it started to prepare Databases.

I went to bed, got up 7 hours later and it hadn't moved at all, still at 'Preparing databases'.

Tried to restart it, now it won't even go 'Online', just says 'Preparing Databases' but doesn't seem to move at all.

Here are the log-files if somebody could please take a look:


Armorylog: https://pastebin.com/jPuZmsU4

DBlog:  https://pastebin.com/Rgs97CDM


Any help would be greatly appreciated - I have bitcoin stuck in an Amory wallet I haven't been able to access for 3 months now.

Thanks for the reply.

The problem is that I can't let Bitcoin Core sync because it doesn't recognize the 172 GB of blocks that was 100% synced up as of yesterday morning. It wants to re-import everything, which will take me another month! How do I get it to start up so it will read the blocks that are already in place? I had hoped that the reinstall from scratch would sort that out.

Here's where the blocks are placed now:

https://imgur.com/a/ghMDs

When I try to run bitcoin-qt.exe it it says:


'Number of blocks left': Unknown

Progress: 0.00%

Last block time: Sat Jan 3 18:15:05 2009


I did mess around with the pathing directly from Armory and I managed to finally get it to connect to the blockchain that is hidden in the Bitcoin core folder. However, it has been loading the 'Node status' for 14 hours now and it only at 16%. Can that be right with a fully updated blockchain that it takes so long?

Is it possible to bypass the actual Bitcoin core interface and simply run it from Armory instead?

I hope someone can help me!

I've been playing around with this since I can't get Armory to synch with a fully updated node.

I've been reading the other posts and tried different stuff, so far no luck.

As part of trying to solve it I moved the blocks folder in the node to a different place (that didn't work). Now the node wants to reimport the blockchain all over, it can no longer find the files (they are still there, 172 GB worth).

I tried uninstalling and installing vers. 0.16.0.0 and that finally finished updating, but it's still not finding the block file and wants to start all over again!

Any tips of how I get the node to update using the blocks I already have in place, and then how to get it to actually connect with Armory.

I just finished updating the complete blockchain after a different problem, that took me almost 1 month.

Please help, I'm going crazy here, been at it for 5 hours now.