PC - 2GB Ram, 23+Gb free diskspace
Ubuntu 12.10
Client
Bitcoin-QT
V.0.8.3.0-g40809ae-beta
I need to upgrade the client, and have had no luck. It is sync'd.
any suggestions? - I'll give tips to whoever moves this forward with me
backup wallet.dat, erase the blockchain and redownload bitcoin 13, run it using prune=50000 in bitcoin.conf
I hope it is what you are looking for.
Would that require me to re-download the whole blockchain (120+ Gbs)? I'm trying to avoid that. If that's the case, I'd just setup a new computer and import the wallet.dat.
no, the solution i told you about will let you download the last 50k blocks instead of downloading the full blockchain, which is actually around 200GB.
Go to bitcoin.conf and add :
prune = x (where x is the number of last blocks you want to download)
This way, you won't have to think about blockchain size. I can only advise you to set an appropriate number of blocks, and avoid redeleting the blockchain after this because i don't know how the wallet will react if it finds a wallet with informations comming from old blocks not downloaded.
You can finde more options here :
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin