For best results I would open up the Bitcoin Core. Let it synch. Then close it down and open Armory.
Thanks for the reply.
The problem is that I can't let Bitcoin Core sync because it doesn't recognize the 172 GB of blocks that was 100% synced up as of yesterday morning. It wants to re-import everything, which will take me another month! How do I get it to start up so it will read the blocks that are already in place? I had hoped that the reinstall from scratch would sort that out.
Here's where the blocks are placed now:
https://imgur.com/a/ghMDsWhen I try to run bitcoin-qt.exe it it says:
'Number of blocks left': Unknown
Progress: 0.00%
Last block time: Sat Jan 3 18:15:05 2009
I did mess around with the pathing directly from Armory and I managed to finally get it to connect to the blockchain that is hidden in the Bitcoin core folder. However, it has been loading the 'Node status' for 14 hours now and it only at 16%. Can that be right with a fully updated blockchain that it takes so long?
Is it possible to bypass the actual Bitcoin core interface and simply run it from Armory instead?