How to -rescan? (OS X)

[sammoocow]

I need to -rescan to try to get a transaction to show up, but everywhere I look it just says "use the -rescan switch" etc., never actually explains how. Could someone please give me a step by step instructions on how to rescan on Mac OS X.

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[sakkaku]

Open terminal (type terminal in spotlight or navigate to Applications -> Utilities).

Code:

/Applications/Bitcoin.app/Contents/MacOS/bitcoin -rescan

You may need to change the path if you moved bitcoin.app from the application directory.

[sammoocow]

Thank you! Worked and got the transaction.

[flaxceed]

and for windows?

[sakkaku]

and for windows?

Find your bitcoin shortcut, copy it, paste it to the desktop.  Open the preferences on it and add -rescan to the end of the target.  

Other option is to open the terminal and cd to the bitcoin.exe and run bitcoin.exe -rescan

[flaxceed]

 

Thank you!
 

[flaxceed]

It is back to its old self again.  I can not get a connection. 

Maybe the rescan was only a partial solution.  I shut down my anti-virus but still no connection.  I try different options in the client- with or without proxy, with or without UPnP, etc. 

If there is a thread online here that might clue me in please point me in that direction.  I have tried searching with no luck.  It's making me batty!

[sakkaku]

rescan is for when you have transactions that got goofed up.

You may want to try manually adding some nodes to your bitcoin.conf file:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Bitcoin.conf_Configuration_File

Some ISPs block IRC by default (which the client uses to find peers) as it is also abused by botnets.  If you are on an uber ghetto network like a university wireless lan you may need to talk to a network admin about whitelisting some outgoing ports.

[flaxceed]

Thanks very much Sakkaku.  I will try that out.