Rescanning with Mac/Terminal

[lakzo]

Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX?  I know its something along the lines of:

open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan

but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options.

[Stephen Gornick]

Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX?  I know its something along the lines of:

open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan

but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options.

I'm not a Mac user, but it appears you would, from the command window, go to the data directory:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Mac

Code:

$ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
$ ./bitcoin-qt -rescan

[lakzo]

Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX?  I know its something along the lines of:

open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan

but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options.

I'm not a Mac user, but it appears you would, from the command window, go to the data directory:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Mac

Code:

$ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
$ ./bitcoin-qt -rescan

Everytime I enter it into terminal it gives me the "no such file directory" message :/

[SAC]

Does anyone know the syntax for the command to rescan the block chain using OSX?  I know its something along the lines of:

open -a bitcoin-qt -rescan

but everytime I try to execute it like above I get this long menu of options.

I'm not a Mac user, but it appears you would, from the command window, go to the data directory:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Mac

Code:

$ cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
$ ./bitcoin-qt -rescan

Everytime I enter it into terminal it gives me the "no such file directory" message :/

No wonder binaries are always in the application bundle not the support directory.

Code:

/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitcoin-Qt

Give the above a try or put the ~ in front if you put the app in your home /Applications directory.

Edit: And now I look the

Code:

cd ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

will fail every time because you have not escaped the space like so

Code:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin/

that will change you to a directory with a space in it.

Edit2: Unless you enjoy wasting your Time Machine backup space open its preferences and exclude everything in the ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ except your wallet.dat from being backed up, this saves you gb's of unnecessary backups all the time.

[gweedo]

You need to do,

Code:

$ ./Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitcoin-Qt -rescan