0.8: How many times do I need to "reindex"?

[dree12]

I had a full blockchain before the upgrade. After the upgrade, 0.8 reindexed the blockchain once. That's fine, I thought. Not much time later, the number of blocks remaining went up by ~8000 and the last ~8000 blocks needed to be reindexed again. And now, the number of blocks remaining went up by ~3000 and the last ~3000 blocks need to be reindexed one more time. How many reindicies should I expect? Is this normal behaviour?

[grue]

afaik, you only need to reindex once. if you're having problems, you can always delete everything except for wallet.dat, and resync using 0.8

[dree12]

afaik, you only need to reindex once. if you're having problems, you can always delete everything except for wallet.dat, and resync using 0.8

That's what I ended up doing after reindexing slowed to a block a minute. Turns out redownloading the chain isn't that bad anymore.

[Digigami]

Yeah I had to download the whole chain again, but this time complete download and verification took aprox 2.5 hours on a VM. Last time I went through that ordeal it was well in excess of 24 hours. The client certainly has come a long way with this most recent update.

[dougiedj]

hew do i reindex as when i dun it from the debug window i get an error?