My Armory wallet has gone to zero balance and transactions are missing?

[LarrysCoins]

I just tried to send some of my bit coin in my armory wallet. When I pressed the send button to setup the transaction the program seemed to freeze and displayed a window I couldn't shut down. I had to reboot the computer to shut Armory down. After rebooting my wallet showed zero balance and all my transactions are missing? I restored my wallet from a paper back up, which seems to work but still have zero balance and no transactions. Have I been hacked, has my bitcoin been stolen?

[hosemary]

As you don't see any transaction, most probably your wallet isn't synced to the network properly.
Is your Armory wallet connected to bitcoin core or offline? Check the bottom right corner of the window.

Have I been hacked, has my bitcoin been stolen?

Don't worry. I guess it's only a syncing issue and to make sure of that, you can check your address(es) balance on block explorers like mempool.space.

[LarrysCoins]

Thanks for looking at this. My Armory screen says Node offline (0 blocks).
How do I get my Armory to sync again?
My Armory version I see on main screen is 0.96.3.992
I would like to check my addresses but I don't have any without my transaction listing.

[goatpig]

Delete the databases folder in your Armory appdata then update to 0.96.5:

https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases

[LarrysCoins]

Thanks for the guidance.
I upgraded to 0.96.5.
Deleted the data base folder as you directed.
My Armory screen has been stuck on node status part for last two weeks. Have generated 2595 131MB
blk02595.dat files. Have watched my HD fill with 340Gbytes so far.

Any idea if this is correct and how much further I will have to go? Still have 430G bytes of free space on my hard drive?

[nc50lc]

-snip- Have generated 2595 131MB
blk02595.dat files. Have watched my HD fill with 340Gbytes so far.

Any idea if this is correct and how much further I will have to go? Still have 430G bytes of free space on my hard drive?

That should be enough to fully sync Bitcoin Core, headsup: it'll reach about <700GB.
The blk files look about right as long as those aren't all "blk02595.dat" files but with sequential numbers like "blk02596.dat" and "blk02597.dat".

But can you tell the version of Bitcoin Core that you're using?
Because Armory v0.96.5 will not be able to use it if it's a new Bitcoin blocksdir and created by >v28.0.

[goatpig]

My chain is the blk050xx.dat at the moment

[LarrysCoins]

Still downloading blk data. Up to #4100.
Question: How do I look at the version of bitcoin core? You asked me to look at this but I don't know how too?

Other observations:
I rarely see Connected (In green) on the bottom right corner of the Armory screen, but have seen it once in awhile when restarting. It always says (0 blocks) weather connected or node offline. Is this correct?

[LarrysCoins]

found bitcoind exe and details show file version 0.15.1.0
file date is 11/6/2017 

[LarrysCoins]

Please help as my wallet seems lost?

[hosemary]

Please help as my wallet seems lost?

Is your wallet synced now?
If you still have issue with your wallet getting synced to the blockchain (as already stated) that's why you don't see any transaction in your wallet.


And don't worry. If you can't sync your wallet for any reason, you can export your private keys from Armory and import them into other wallets like electrum and access your fund.
Electrum is a SPV wallet and you won't have to download the blockchain for using that.

[nc50lc]

found bitcoind exe and details show file version 0.15.1.0

That's too old, since you've upgraded Armory to 0.96.5, you may update Bitcoin Core to v27.0 though it should still work.
You can download the older releases from here: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/

Please help as my wallet seems lost?

When goatpig instructed you to delete the databases folder,
Did you delete the literal "databases" folder inside armory folder or the "armory" folder itself?
Because the latter will get your wallet deleted, in this case, you can just restore it back since you have your backup.

[LarrysCoins]

I deleted the databases folder under the armory folder. Not the Armory folder.

[LarrysCoins]

should I upgrade to bitcoin core V27?
You keep asking if my wallet is synced, how do I tell? My wallet transactions are still missing and I always see zero blocks in the lower right hand corner of the armory screen. Usually the screen says node offline(0 blocks), but I have seen connected(0 blocks) a few times.