I deleted that Bitcoin URI file and it appears everything is fine!  What an obscure fix...  How would the average mintcoin user know that I have no idea.  Thanks though!

Another question: I have held Mintcoin in my wallet for about 18 months but have not ran the wallet that frequently.  Does that affect my minting of coins?  Do I still get the same amount minted regardless of how often I ran the wallet?

Hey all,

I posted this on the Mintcoin support forum yesterday but there doesn't seem like much traffic going on there.  I'm having some serious problems getting Mintcoin synced and would appreciate any help.

I’ve been trying to sync my wallet for the last few days. First I updated to the latest 1.17 on Windows 7. It took a few days and finally I was 80% done last night. I woke up today and the wallet had crashed. Restarting it resulted in more crashes. I tried starting it with -rescan but it still crashed.

I deleted the whole blockchain folder except my wallet.dat and then downloaded the official blockchain with Bittorrent sync. I added that folder. The client still crashes. I tried -rescan. Same thing.

The only way I can get the client not to crash is to delete the entire blockchain. But then I’m sure it will likely crash once it gets to 80% synced again.

I’m at a total loss here.  Any advice would be awesome.