OMG help! Wtf?

[ones51]

So I installed the bitcoin client for my laptop and immediately I transfer coins from my desktop to my laptop and I got this message from my desktop bitcoin client......

0/offline?, has not been successfully broadcast yet

Then my desktop client shows 3 unconfirmed and now 6 confirmations.

This whole time I don't see a transfer in my laptop bitcoin client, nothing....just a blank white screen.....where did my coins go......help......please........

[kripz]

Your address that you sent and should receive?

EDIT: Here, paste your address inlace of mine: http://blockexplorer.com/address/17NpaV8LkxCTXzaYNqS7C17SubmGZgwYoc

[Ian Maxwell]

If you just installed the client, your laptop is still processing transactions that happened a year and a half ago. It won't register any recent blocks until it's sorted all the older ones out first.

[adamstgBit]

wait 2 hours.... and then panic!

[ones51]

http://blockexplorer.com/address/133XMw383eKHTQ5WCBUUXTquaP7Y8q5Hki

What to do now?

[ones51]

It's been 6 hours. The panic button is right next to me......

[ones51]

Anyone knows what is gonna happen next?

[Jered Kenna (TradeHill)]

Is it done downloading the block chain or still counting?
-Jered

[willphase]

Check the number at the bottom of the bitcoin client on your laptop.  Once it matches this number, and you still don't have any bitcoins, then you can panic.

Hint: If your laptop is nearby your PC e.g. they are networked together, you can speed up the block chain download by starting the bitcoin client with -connect=<ip>, where <ip> is the IP address of your PC.

Will

[ones51]

The number in my laptop is 40391 and its stuck...its not moving

[arkados]

Relaunch client. If not better, use only 1 bitcoin client at the same time on the same internet line (NAT port forwarding and uPnP related, sometime it fails with 2+ running bitcoin clients)

[ones51]

Relaunch client. If not better, use only 1 bitcoin client at the same time on the same internet line (NAT port forwarding and uPnP related, sometime it fails with 2+ running bitcoin clients)

I relaunched the client 3 times and reboot the laptop twice....still nothing.....

[ones51]

I Guess it's over for me.....

[BitQuestr (BitCoinWorldMarket)]

Try just backing up your wallet.dat again (make sure the client is fully closed) then delete the bitcoin client and all its data and reinstall. Restore the wallet.dat file and let it have a few hours at least to download the whole block chain.

An alternative is to do a -rescan.  You can search other threads on how to do that.

[natman3400]

I Guess it's over for me.....

I would recommend trying to find a block chain download, then kill bitcoin on your other computer and reluanch your client.
Anyone got the links to the pre-downloaded block chain?

[ones51]

ok. I uncheck connect through socks4 proxy and my blocks are moving up. lets see what happens at 134637

[natman3400]

ok. I uncheck connect through socks4 proxy and my blocks are moving up. lets see what happens at 134637

That was your problem there, it was trying to connect to a non-existent proxy probably.
If you would like, I can upload my block chain to accelerate the process.

[jed]

This happened to me before. I think it has issues running two clients behind a router. Just send from the one client with the other off and wait for confirmation and then close the sender and open the receiver.

[kripz]

A better way to do it:

pc1: PC with completed block chain, launch with --server and configure rpc.conf
pc2: PC with stalling block chain launch with --conect pc2 --user username --pass password

This will download the blocks at LAN speeds.

use --help or /? for syntax on commands.

OR

zip the block chain and copy to pc2 and extract.

[Xenland]

As long as they were sent correctly and you can find them in block explorer its just dumb to freak out, once its in the network and you still have your wallet files your golden man. Just be patient.