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June 11, 2018, 09:28:18 AM |
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Hello - looking for some help again just upgraded to 0.96.4 Running BitcoinCore on an external HD all went well untill the upgrade now Armory wont sync, stays "offline" and gets stuck on "preparing database" -no green in the bar Havent done any recent transactions, just want to see that my wallet is intact and synced any ideas? thanks in advance
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June 11, 2018, 01:13:03 PM |
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Post your logs.
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June 11, 2018, 05:29:21 PM |
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June 12, 2018, 12:12:39 AM |
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If you start BitcoinQt manually, does it crash? Also, how are you passing your custom blockchain path to Armory?
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June 12, 2018, 05:55:35 AM |
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2018-06-11 11:44:11 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:1294 - Available HDD (BTC) : 0 GB
Is that a legitimate problem? Or just Armory not being able to calculate the disk space on the external drive? ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
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June 12, 2018, 11:16:20 AM |
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Goatpig - can you please explain in plain English: "start BitcoinQt manually" and "passing your custom blockchain path to Armory"? sorry for the newbie question
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June 12, 2018, 11:40:26 AM |
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"start BitcoinQt manually"
1. Make sure Armory is NOT running 2. Goto: C:\Program Files\Bitcoin 3. Double click on bitcoin-qt.exe what happens? Also, what version of Bitcoin Core do you have installed? and "passing your custom blockchain path to Armory"?
You stated that your Bitcoin data directory (ie. the folder that has your wallet.dat and all the Bitcoin Core "blocks" data) is in a non-standard custom location (ie. "Running BitcoinCore on an external HD"). Looking at the logs... it is in D:\BitcoinCore How are you telling Armory where your Blockchain data is? Did you set that in a .conf file? Did you set it in the Armory settings window?
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June 12, 2018, 12:19:38 PM |
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Thank you when I start manually it works fine Im using Bitcoin Core 15.1
yes, in the settings window i checked "let armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" and have "D:\BitcoinCore" as Bitcoin Home Dir
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June 12, 2018, 10:12:52 PM |
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Create a file named armoryqt.conf in your Armory datadir (where your wallets are), put this line in there: satoshi-datadir=D:\BitcoinCore\blocks
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June 13, 2018, 08:03:15 AM |
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Thank yoiu very much agian, sorry for rookie questions:
is this a txt file? and i just paste this one line of code in it?
tried that - to no avail. same issue
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June 13, 2018, 02:52:49 PM |
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Create a text file, rename it armoryqt.conf, put the one line in there. Make sure you display known file extensions or you won't be able to change the .txt to .conf.
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June 13, 2018, 11:28:43 PM |
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Remove the path setting in the GUI and try again.
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June 14, 2018, 10:57:56 AM |
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All set - thanks!
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July 05, 2018, 09:55:28 AM |
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yes, in the settings window i checked "let armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" and have "D:\BitcoinCore" as Bitcoin Home Dir
goatpig Why didn't this work in the first place? Might it be helpful for Armory to display an error message in the future (like "can't find satoshi -datadir") instead of hanging on "preparing database"?
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July 05, 2018, 10:47:29 AM |
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yes, in the settings window i checked "let armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" and have "D:\BitcoinCore" as Bitcoin Home Dir
goatpig Why didn't this work in the first place? Might it be helpful for Armory to display an error message in the future (like "can't find satoshi -datadir") instead of hanging on "preparing database"? This is a client side issue. Only DB stuff gets reported in the GUI, cause it's not expecting to fail itself. I'll push a bug fix release with a bunch of such fixes sometimes soon.
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July 06, 2018, 10:05:27 AM |
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yes, in the settings window i checked "let armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" and have "D:\BitcoinCore" as Bitcoin Home Dir
goatpig Why didn't this work in the first place? Might it be helpful for Armory to display an error message in the future (like "can't find satoshi -datadir") instead of hanging on "preparing database"? This is a client side issue. Only DB stuff gets reported in the GUI, cause it's not expecting to fail itself. I'll push a bug fix release with a bunch of such fixes sometimes soon. No, I'm asking why having "D:\BitcoinCore" as Bitcoin Home Dir in the settings failed.
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July 06, 2018, 08:05:25 PM |
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No, I'm asking why having "D:\BitcoinCore" as Bitcoin Home Dir in the settings failed.
I have not investigated it, most likely the setting in the GUI gets bypassed at some point. If your question is does this work as intended, the answer is no, this is a bug.
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January 07, 2020, 01:26:20 PM Last edit: January 08, 2020, 03:18:40 AM by nc50lc |
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Bitcoin Core V.18.1 running on an external hard drive (D:)
2020-01-07 12:54:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:1284 - Satoshi BTC directory : D:\Bitcoin core 2020-01-07 12:54:40 (ERROR) -- ArmoryQt.py:1862 - Failed to setup SDM BitcoindError: bitcoind not found
Is there really a space between 'Bitcoin' and 'core' of the folder name of your Bitcoin Core's directory? Because you've been trying to load it from E:\BitcoinCore last November, but now, you changed it to D:\Bitcoin core ( with space) -edit-She deleted her post, maybe it was solved.
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