Thank you for that help!  It's -loadblock not -loadblocks but your help got me pointed in the right direction.

Thanks, again!

Chris

This is for PatrickMacH (or anyone else who can help):

Hello, Patrick!

I tried to send this to you as a PM but the system tells me that you have blocked PM's from newbies.  So, I'm posting it here.

I made a donation and downloaded the bootstrap.dat.az file from this forum thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1310261.msg55536769#msg55536769

I unzipped the file using 7zip and put the resulting bootstrap.dat file in my ~/.bitcoin directory.  However, when I run bitcoin-qt it appears it ignore the bootstrap.dat file and is syncing with the network from the beginning, saying it's going to take 2 days to process.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Thanks!

Regards,

Chris