How to use bootstrap.dat with Bitcoin-qt mac Mavericks?

[ShawnLeary]

Hi everyone,

Hope you can help me and the internet with an issue.  Recently downloaded Bitcoin-qt 0.8.6 macosx and its taking FOREVER to download the block chain.  Yes I checked No Nap to allow it download entirely before Mavericks puts it asleep.  My question is, I already downloaded the bootstrap.dat from the torrents, how do I make Bitcoin-qt see bootstrap.dat?  There was no library\application support\bitcoin folder created with this release of Bitcoin-qt.  I did create that folder and copy pasted the 13GB blockchain file.   

Any ideas of how to speed this process up?

TIA

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[maaku]

The location of the data directory has not changed. It should be "/Users/<your-user-name>/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin". If you didn't find it, then you were probably looking in the wrong spot...

Just put the bootstrap.dat file there, and reopen Bitcoin-Qt.

[ShawnLeary]

The location of the data directory has not changed. It should be "/Users/<your-user-name>/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin". If you didn't find it, then you were probably looking in the wrong spot...

Just put the bootstrap.dat file there, and reopen Bitcoin-Qt.

You were right, Library was grayed out and I thought that I couldn't explore it, wrong, found it.  Thanks!

UPDATE: I put that bootstrap.dat file in that folder and Bitcoin-qt is not recognizing that file or is just ignoring it.  Is there anything else I needed to do with Bitcoin-qt in order for it to use the bootstrap.dat?   

Thanks