Cant Get Damn Wallet To Download

[Daman8trx]

I am trying to download the wallet at bitcoin(dot)org and I keep getting a wallet error. I deleted all the files and did a total uninstall. I'm starting from scratch can anyone tell me step by step to get this thing installed? Also I was considering just downloading multibit. Is this a good alternative if I cant get bitcoin-qt to work? also if I use multibit will I be able to start bitcoin mining? Please please please help.... thank you in advance.

[Ryland R. Taylor-Almanza]

I am trying to download the wallet at bitcoin(dot)org and I keep getting a wallet error. I deleted all the files and did a total uninstall. I'm starting from scratch can anyone tell me step by step to get this thing installed? Also I was considering just downloading multibit. Is this a good alternative if I cant get bitcoin-qt to work? also if I use multibit will I be able to start bitcoin mining? Please please please help.... thank you in advance.

What exactly is going wrong? What error are you getting? Also, I like electrum.

[Raoul Duke]

If you're going to mine on a pool you don't need the bitcoin client installed at all.
You just need to provide the pool with one address where they should send your earnings.

[Daman8trx]

Thanx guys. I'm getting an error that won't even let me open the wallet something about error loading blinded.dat everytime I delete program and reinstall I get same error. The very first time I downloaded it I got about 78% done (loading the blocks?) then it just stopped working and I've been getting this error ever since!

[nomnomnom]

Probably blkindex.dat, it is located in the datadir, depending on your Operating System:

• Windows     %APPDATA%\Bitcoin\
  (XP) C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Bitcoin\
  (Vista, 7) C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\
• Linux    $HOME/.bitcoin/
  /home/username/.bitcoin/
• Mac OSX    $HOME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
  /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

But if you delete blkindex.dat, it will start to download the blockchain again. So that could take a long time...
If you don't have bitcoins in the client yet, you could give multibit a try. It still needs to download blockchain data but
should be much faster.