Not receiving payment (shows up as unconfirmed)

[Hekuro]

Hi,

I've got the following problem:
My bitcoin client shows that it received a payment over 0.02 BTC (no idea who sent it). It shows it as "0/unconfirmed" - for five days now.
I've already ran bincoin.exe -rescan and I've got all blocks. (I've got 128183 at the moment).
My problem isn't that it's important for me to receive the payment (only 0.02 BTC), the problem is that the bitcoin client always shows it


...and that I am a bit worried that my wallet.dat is somehow corrupted.

I would be very happy if you could help me.
Thanks!

[Garrett Burgwardt]

It's not corrupt- it's just a very very low priority transaction, and was sent without a fee.

It will eventually confirm, don't worry

-Garrett

[Hekuro]

Wow, does it really take longer than five days? 

[Garrett Burgwardt]

Wow, does it really take longer than five days? 

For very low priority transactions, yes. This is such a small amount and likely didn't include a fee, and might be new coins as well (the person who sent them just got them). All those combine to make something a low priority transaction.

Once the coins age enough, the tx will make it into the blockchain.

[Hekuro]

OK, than I won't worry, thank you!

[Calavera]

You should be able to find it in here:

http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/

If you can't then you may have a problem.

[Stephen Gornick]

Wow, does it really take longer than five days?  

For very low priority transactions, yes.

Even when low priority transactions were the most backup up (2,000 + at one time) the longest delay for a transaction to get included in block was about 24 hours or thereabouts.

Today that number of transactions queued is just a few dozen, so at worst they will likely get included in a block within a few hours.

I'm not sure the reason why this has worked when rescan hasn't but pulling a new blockchain might be a workaround for your problem.
  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/
backup your wallet.dat first, or even copy it to a separate computer to see if this method solves your problem.

[Hekuro]

Ok, I will try this as soon as I am on a stable internet connection (I am on mobile internet at the moment). Then I will report back. Thank you very much for your help.

[Calavera]

Don't bother with that yet.

Check block explorer and see if the transaction is in a block. 

If it's in a block then get the block chain again.  If it isn't, and it isn't in the link I posted above then it's possible it was a double spend or similar.

[Hekuro]

Don't bother with that yet.

Check block explorer and see if the transaction is in a block. 

If it's in a block then get the block chain again.  If it isn't, and it isn't in the link I posted above then it's possible it was a double spend or similar.

Yes it is in a block. So I have downloaded the blockchain now. I copied wallet.dat to an usb-stick, then deleted it and placed the new blockchain there. Then I ran bitcoin. Now I'm waiting for it to download the other blocks. But... When it is done with that, should I just place wallet.dat in the Bitcoin data directory? Should I run bitcoin with -rescan then? Or just run it normally?