Updated client, new blocks not downloading

[chorchonga]

I want to buy some stuff for BitcoinFriday, but my blockindex is 76 days old and my balance is in transactions newer than that.  It takes me days to download the whole block.  Is there any other way to get the blockchain downloading again?  I have 18 connections but keep getting "Warning:Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade or other nodes may need to upgrade" and have been sitting at 195591 blocks for about 12 hours.

[chorchonga]

Well, I'm trying a bootstrap.  Wish me luck!
http://eu2.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/

[deepceleron]

That won't be much use to you. The blockchain height of "bootstrap.dat" is 193000, of which only about 189205 blocks will import. You say you already have blocks 195,000+.

You would be better getting blk0002.dat from this thread, rename it to bootstrap.dat, and put it in your bitcoin data directory. Then start Bitcoin. Note that you must have the current version of Bitcoin for the bootstrap.dat process to work. That file contains blocks from 188529 to 206000; blocks that are older than your current blockchain height will be quickly skipped and then importing will continue at the next block you don't have.

However, you may discover that the problem you are having, not downloading any blocks even though you have connections, may continue if your local blockchain is corrupted.