lol...it just never ends

[goatpig]

These are lines for the node, i.e. they go into bitcoin.conf.

[jojo69]

These are lines for the node, i.e. they into bitcoin.conf.

got it

thank you

tomorrow we can dive into the other box that steadfastly refuses to path

[jojo69]

OK, first off, thanks for bearing with me folks.  It seems like I made nearly every possible mistake in that last process.  I am assimilating information though, and feel like that filled in some rather glaring gaps in my understanding.

So the other box, this one is really odd.  It used to work, it has probably been almost a year now though.  As I recall I was making some hardware changes and moving drives around and it never worked again.  I have battered myself against it multiple times, to the point of complete uninstall/reinstall cycles only to eventually give up in despair.

The behavior is that it refuses to recognize custom pathing args.  It just seems to ignore them.  It does not matter if they are entered under the file/settings/general/let Armory...dialog, as a shortcut arg or in a .conf file (I tried last night after getting that straight).

Win7pro 64
Core 0.15.1
RC3

armorylog entering args with armoryqt.conf https://pastebin.com/6KAhxf6U

the pathing SHOULD BE "G:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe" -- satoshi-datadir="G:\Blockchain\blocks" --datadir="G:\armory" or the syntactical varient for the entry method

armorylog entering args with shortcut https://pastebin.com/WRJeHmRi

I apologize in advance, history would suggest that I am missing something embarrassingly boneheaded and obvious.

[PhoenixFire]

the pathing SHOULD BE "G:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe" -- satoshi-datadir="G:\Blockchain\blocks" --datadir="G:\armory" or the syntactical varient for the entry method

armorylog entering args with shortcut https://pastebin.com/WRJeHmRi

I apologize in advance, history would suggest that I am missing something embarrassingly boneheaded and obvious.

There is a space between -- and satoshi above, and in your logs for the shortcut version.

[jojo69]

oh god...the shame

[jojo69]

that hooked up, took it a while to finish up its database as it has not synced in a year or so

totally embarrassing, a little bit of dyslexia goes a long way in computers...

To rub salt in the wound, I had somehow managed to save armoryqt.conf.txt  which of course didn't work.

I'm going to go sit in the corner with the duncecap on now.

[PhoenixFire]

Good to know you're up and running again.
Don't beat yourself up - Having another set of eyes have a look things over works wonders - pretty sure that, at some point, everyone has been blind to some minor issue hiding in plain sight