Bitcoins (lost?)

[Populus]

A few days ago I was going to send 1.6 btc to an exchange. I did so with a fee of 0.0001btc and patiently waited, it was stuck on "Seen by 1 peer" but I figured it would resolve itself over night. I went to bed and the next day it had not changed. After 20 hours of waiting worry had sunk in pretty hard and so I tried getting help in different IRC channels. I PM'd the dev of Multibit which is the wallet I'm using for my bitcoins, he told me to read the help file in Multibit and from there I was told to reset the blockchain & transactions if I had the problem that I was having.
I reset it to the day before the transaction like I was told but all it did was remove the transaction from Multibit what I understand.
Looking at my receiving adress on blockchain it says that I have roughly 1.51 unspent output which should be more. The transaction was for 1.6 btc and I should have 0.0x from recent mining.
Deleting the spvchain file in Multibit reloaded the transactions in Multibit, but not the 1.6 btc transaction.

How do I regain access to my 1.6btc?

I hope you guys can shed some light on this and put my worry at rest.

[jim618]

You might want to do a complete clean of your wallet by doing a 'Tools | Reset blockchain and transactions' from the first transaction. This should give you all the transactions that are on the blockchain for your addresses.

As long as you don't lose the private keys to your addresses you won't have lost your BTC.
If you really cannot get the amounts to match up you can always export the private key and put it in another bitcoin client.

[Populus]

You might want to do a complete clean of your wallet by doing a 'Tools | Reset blockchain and transactions' from the first transaction. This should give you all the transactions that are on the blockchain for your addresses.

As long as you don't lose the private keys to your addresses you won't have lost your BTC.
If you really cannot get the amounts to match up you can always export the private key and put it in another bitcoin client.

I did a complete reset of the blockchain and that resolved it.

[jim618]

Great!

[DaisyPusher]

 I am having a similar problem.  I now (currently trying for several hours) to reset the block chain and am having no success.  It just keeps telling me that it is connecting.  However, nothing is happening.  I have tried shutting down the client, the computer and all of that.  I am not sure how to find the private keys mentioned above to transfer to another wallet as mentioned above.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

[jim618]

If your MultiBit is only ever 'Connecting...' then that indicates it cannot make connections to the Bitcoin network.
Have a look at your network connection, including:
+ firewalls, proxies
+ any redirects you have on port 8333
+ connect to a specific bitcoind peer which is not running.

You might need to have a look in the log files (see the Help Contents section Support | Troubleshooting for where the log files are) for the specific error when it is connecting to the Bitcoin network.

[DaisyPusher]

jim618 I looked into the the things you mentioned and there does not seem to be a problem there.  If I should unintstall and then reinstall Multibit, that would most likely result in the loss of my btc would it not?  Thanks

[jim618]

If you uninstall using the 'Uninstall MultiBit' shortcut it leaves your wallets untouched.

Did you have a look at the log files ? Normally if you cannot make connections out you get error messages logged (quite near the top of the log files).