[Solved]Unconfirmed Transaction...

[Definit]

Tried to send this amount to my Gox account about 9 hrs ago, and it's sitting there.. at first i seen 8 nodes next to the unconfirmed, but now nothing but this.

Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 3/13/2013 20:55
To: 12NJFh662w9B1PHg22uy8nV2bGFxWxEmyd
Debit: -341.90635313 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.0075 BTC
Net amount: -341.91385313 BTC
Transaction ID: 11189a43b7c9cf6123ac8df20bd43f97aa90309d0a56d7d5584dc481aeeaeec3



any help would be appreciated.

[SchmalzTech]

   I was moving some coin yesterday between a blockchain.info wallet and a 0.8 Windows client, and it has been in limbo unconfirmed for almost 21 hours now. Only 4 nodes has it as of now according to blockchain.info.

http://blockchain.info/tx/238253c8271ea81daf252146ca559110798f80b30f35239e0432d40cd332be1c


Summary
Size   4036 (bytes)
Received Time   2013-03-13 20:06:18
Estimated Confirmation Time    Very Soon
Relayed by IP   Blockchain.info
Inputs and Outputs
Total Input   4.88554794 BTC
Total Output   4.87954794 BTC
Fees   0.006 BTC
Estimated BTC Transacted   4.87 BTC

[Definit]

my transaction isn't even found...

i made a previous transaction with the same address that went through just fine and confirmed right before i made this transaction. Several other transactions went through fine just now as well.

[SchmalzTech]

This is interesting... I just opened up my firewall and allowed the receiving wallet (which saw the transaction right away) to become a node, and now blockchain.info sees that my node has the transaction.  Maybe I am helping it along now by running a node?!?!?  I have a feeling this will eventually confirm... it's just taking forever.  I was in the developers IRC channel last night and someone was saying that there is a backlog of transactions right now, which I take to mean that transactions with low or no fees are getting set aside for ones with higher fees until the network catches up.

[Definit]

i hope so... this gives me a little hope....

[SchmalzTech]

I have had txes stick before, but not like the one I am dealing with now.  This is now over 20 hours, and not any that are over a couple BTC.

[Definit]

 

gettin worried..............

[Newar]

Definit, in response to your PM, I followed the instructions for Windows in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0

Once I had deleted the stuck tx, I ran bitcoind -rescan, but it would not return any messages even after half an hour at 25% CPU load (my wallet is 6 MB). So I shut it down and started bitcoin-qt and the tx was gone. There is now a 0.- transaction in my wallet in its stead.

I highly recommend backing up wallet.dat if you want to try and do the same.

[Definit]

Definit, in response to your PM, I followed the instructions for Windows in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0

Once I had deleted the stuck tx, I ran bitcoind -rescan, but it would not return any messages even after half an hour at 25% CPU load (my wallet is 6 MB). So I shut it down and started bitcoin-qt and the tx was gone. There is now a 0.- transaction in my wallet in its stead.

I highly recommend backing up wallet.dat if you want to try and do the same.

I ended up trying this, but the wallet was left with nothing in it after it did the rescan.. so I reverted back to the original...

[Definit]

Installed Open Bitcoin Wallet onto another pc.

Loaded my original wallet.dat backup created 8-2011.

After 7hr's or so, the blockchain was loaded fully, and all is well.

I actually made an extra 4btc from doing this, assuming they were sent to this wallet.dat file after I had been using a more recent one.

Yey.

[cbeast]

Installed Open Bitcoin Wallet onto another pc.

Loaded my original wallet.dat backup created 8-2011.

After 7hr's or so, the blockchain was loaded fully, and all is well.

I actually made an extra 4btc from doing this, assuming they were sent to this wallet.dat file after I had been using a more recent one.

Yey.

I need to find my old wallet backups from other installations and create watch only wallets for just this reason.

[Newar]

Installed Open Bitcoin Wallet onto another pc.

Loaded my original wallet.dat backup created 8-2011.

After 7hr's or so, the blockchain was loaded fully, and all is well.

I actually made an extra 4btc from doing this, assuming they were sent to this wallet.dat file after I had been using a more recent one.

Yey.

Interesting solution. Glad to hear it worked out!

[Definit]

If any of you try this, feel free to let me know if it worked for you as well..

I was reading here & there for anything, and read that -resync, or rebuilding the blockchain would work. I figured i'd try this first, and it ended up working, so I'm sure there is other solutions that may work for different situations.

[Definit]

Installed Open Bitcoin Wallet onto another pc.

Loaded my original wallet.dat backup created 8-2011.

After 7hr's or so, the blockchain was loaded fully, and all is well.

I actually made an extra 4btc from doing this, assuming they were sent to this wallet.dat file after I had been using a more recent one.

Yey.

I need to find my old wallet backups from other installations and create watch only wallets for just this reason.

Yes, and now days every 1 btc is worth $47 range... so I made 200 bucks for my stressful endeavor. Lol.

[Definit]

Installed Open Bitcoin Wallet onto another pc.

Loaded my original wallet.dat backup created 8-2011.

After 7hr's or so, the blockchain was loaded fully, and all is well.

I actually made an extra 4btc from doing this, assuming they were sent to this wallet.dat file after I had been using a more recent one.

Yey.

Interesting solution. Glad to hear it worked out!

Thanks, hopefully something will work out for you as well... just keep trying, and know that they are still there.. it's just a matter of time before you figure it out n get them back.

[Newar]

Thanks, hopefully something will work out for you as well... just keep trying, and know that they are still there.. it's just a matter of time before you figure it out n get them back.

Got it sorted yesterday ;-)