I'm a noob to Bitcoin and just bought my first BTC from bitbargain. I then sent them to the standard address given in the Bitcoin-Qt client I had downloaded. However I subsequently realised that my wallet in Bitcoin-Qt is constantly showing as "out of sync" despite the fact that I have been running the programme for hours, which means my BTC haven't arrived (20+ confirmations on blockchain.info). I'm sure this must have been the case since the moment I downloaded it, but just didn't realise until I'd sent the BTC. In hindsight I was an idiot to send them while this was the case, but I don't think I can undo it now so I'd really appreciate it if someone more savvy could help me out of this mess.
I am running Bitcoin-Qt v0.7.2-beta on OS X 10.7. Here's a screenshot of the problem:
Kind of hard to read but that pop up looks like it says you need another 6000 blocks to be caught up once it does download them you will see your btc. BTW if you have time machine setup you may want to go into its preferences and exclude every file in the /Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ except the wallet.dat this will save you gigabytes of easily replaced data being backed up every time it runs.