Hi all,

New to all this.  I just moved my bitcoin working directory and wallet to a secure Truecrypt file.  After bitcoin re-downloaded all it's blocks, I noticed the Truecrypt "drive" is over 500mb in size!  Is this normal?

I've discovered that the culprit is the Bitcoin/database folder, which is full of ~10mb log files, named log.0000000001, log.0000000002, etc.  Is that normal, or can those logs be deleted?

This matters because I've defined my secure file/drive to a set size and I don't want it filling up if I can help it.

Many thanks!

Hi all,

I need a bit of help.  Due to all the security issues, I thought I should put my bitcoin wallet into an encrypted location.  I use Truecrypt, so I created an encrypted file and transferred the bitcoin folder there.  I then edited my shortcut with the -datadir= attributed and pointed it to the folder in the encrypted drive.

Everything seems to be working fine, except my bitcoins aren't showing up in the client.  I know the client is pointing in the correct location because I tried deleting all the files in the direction (except the wallet file) and sure enough, on re-opening the bitcoin client, the files got regenerated.  So I'm pretty sure it's looking in the right location.  However, now I have a new bitcoin address and my balance is 0.

I looked through the forums.  I saw suggestions to clear the bitcoin direction and let the client re-download the block files.  While all the files seem to be regenerated, the client isn't accessing the network to do anything.  Upon first re-opening it, I had some connections, but now my connections are listed as 0, and nothing is really going on.  I thought maybe I had to be patient, but it appears as though nothing is really happening.

Am I doing something wrong?  Do I just need to wait for many hours?

Many thanks for your help!