How else can you delete the strings that it brings unnecessarily? Other than manually? I tried every export variation i saw in armory and they all came with either not the info i needed (the keys) or too much. The first time i tried it i just copied them directly into the import keys window and did it there, but nothing i did ever made the next box ungrey. Now I've got them pasted in a word file and I'm taking out the extra data manually again. But this process take ages and is sooooooo frustrating when you do all that work and then it doesn't even bloody work.

Yes and yes.

I spent like 30 mins deleting out the "PrivBase58:" parts and the strings with 1s that weren't right. When I got to the end the next button was still greyed out and wouldn't let me do anything else.

Okay, I tried this with Electrum, but nothing I do seems to work. I tried doing the export following the thread that was posted, but the imported addresses had an extra line of data starting with 1, then underneath had the PrivBase58: 5numberhere...

I spent like an hour going through and deleting all the extra lines/info so that just the keys starting with 5s were showing, and then nothing. The "next" button just stays greyed out. No matter what I try. I tried copy/paste, I tried manually typing, I tried saving and importing the file... no matter what I cannot click next, it's just greyed out.

This has become a hassle and a half and I can't believe I've spent so much time on this damn thing, with literally no results! Sorry, a little frustrated. >.>

Other ideas/thoughts? Sigh.

I literally want to do whatever is easiest and fastest. If that means I leave Armory behind, then that means I leave Armory behind. I don't know. I'm just figuring this all out for my boss, and he's been waiting weeeeeks now to get access to these funds. :/

Okay, that box is definitely checked. If I uncheck it, it says it will need to re-download all 320 GB. So I'm going to set back another week?! SIGH

Also, when I tried to do the config thing you said, it didn't know what program to pick and sent me to the app store. I tried to do it in notebook, but it just opens up blank. So I don't know what to do here either.

This seems to be generating more and more problems, rather than a solution T_T

... Um, hello? Can someone please hellllllllllp

Oh no. Deleting that folder has taken me back in this process! 

I had to re-restore the wallet again and agree to everything again and now I don't have the node status or the transactions tab anymore... and it's saying offline in the bottom right again instead of node offline. And instead of the green bar in the preparing dbs, it's just showing grey/.

I think so? https://imgur.com/a/otyiV2g

Or do I verify it some other way?

okay I did a full reboot. and then booted bitcoin-qt first, waited for it to be synced, and then opened armory. Now at the bottom it says "Node Offline (0 Blocks)," instead of just offline like it was saying before...

The drive has 1 TB of space, so yeah it still has room. Thanks for your continuing help on this.

No, I wouldn't know the first thing about changing config files, that's part of why I've been asking for the hand-holding. This stuff is all way over my head.

Here are the photos I have:

Looks like Bitcoin-qt is synced and up. And Armory is just sitting :/

https://imgur.com/a/ZBll8HL

9

so do i just make nonsense posts until i get to 10? >.>

At least I got one thing right...


That's what I show, yes. That's the folder and it has a bunch of stuff in it...


So maybe there's something here that I'm not understanding... I don't know. I can open bitcoin-qt and it loads up and then shows me send and receive and appears to be synced...

But then Armory is just sitting here...

I have screenshots I could attach but I guess I'm not high enough rank yet :/

I let it go overnight and did some more reading and stopped and started things again. I've gone a step further than before but it's still on "build databases" greyed out and then nothing on "scanning transaction history." So is it rebuilding the 320GB blockchain? I have it pointed where the chain was downloaded originally... I'm so confused.

Here's my log: https://pastebin.com/QDa8Uss9

Okay, you've been/are being very helpful. Thank you for the hand-holding through this.

Okay, so I changed Bitcoin Home Dir: to point at the folder with the blocks, chainstate, database folders, etc.
I changed the Bitcoin Install Dir: to point at the point with the bitcoin-qt executable. Is that right? Or I want it to point at the Armory executable?

I found the two log files in question and deleted them.

Yes! I have a node status now, and a greyed out transactions tab! This is progress.

Do you know how long the Armory build databases and scanning transaction history usually takes? They are green and there's a cd with some green, but they are just sitting. Should this take an hour? All day? A Week? Thanks!

Okay, so if that's the folder all the bitcoin stuff is in, is that the right place? Or do I need to change it to say something else? That's the folder with the bitcoin-qt and such. There's another folder on the drive called Bitcoin Core which has folders for blocks, chainstate, and database. Should it be pointing at that one instead?




How do I delete the logs? :/

Okay. I open bitcoin-qt, and it did the whole 320GB blockchain take forever thing, and now it's loaded and says I can send or receive, and has a transactions button, so I think it's up and running.

Then I open Armory and just get the same "preparing databases." If never progresses from there. Under File > Settings > Bitcoin Home Dir: I have it pointed to the folder with the bitcoin-qt executable. Is that wrong?

Okay, thank you. That was easier than I expected. I believe this will show what I've read elsewhere, that it's trying to point to the appdata folders and i have everything on an external hard drive...so I need to reroute them to point/pull from the correct folders. But the post on Armory re: pathing was like hieroglyphics to me.

I hope this is the link: https://pastebin.com/C0jRWk4S

Thanks for the help, goatpig!

I realize this is probably like 10000 other posts in the forums, but I've read and tried to understand and just don't get what I need to do...

I had put funds in an armory wallet, but now cannot get armory to connect and switch from offline to online. I looked at the help topic on pathing and have read forum stuff, but it's like a completely foreign language to me. My eyes glaze over and I'm totally lost. I don't know how to change the directory internally or anything like that. I did figure out how to go in the settings and I rerouted the bitcoin home dir to the right place and left the other two blank like another post said, but it still just says "preparing databases" and I have no "transactions" tab. So something isn't pointing to the right place I'm sure, but I don't know how the heck to figure it out and get it fixed. It's beyond me. Can anyone provide some moderate hand-holding? Other people are pasting bin logs or something, and I don't even know how to do that. But the owner of the bitcoin is hounding me to get in this wallet and get the fund so he can send them somewhere else, but the dang thing won't connect! I downloaded bitcoin core and did the forever 320GB wait and that's up and running fine. That completed.

So I don't know where I'm going wrong, but just cannot get armory to go online.

Any help/hand-holding appreciated very much.

Thanks,
G