Bitcoin Armory Confusion

[dankcoinz2745]

I have no clue whats going on right now. I downloaded armory, made a wallet, and sent coins to it. Then I noticed I was offline and upon further research realized I needed to download the blockchain database. So I downloaded bitcoincore and waited about 2 days for it to download everything on the bitcoin core app. While it was doing this armory was also running and the menus where it says "build database" and "scanning transaction history" was up. The only box that wast lit up green was "scanning transaction history" and I've had this apple loading pinwheel thing just spinning around the past 2 days as well. Last night Bitcore finished downloading everything so I closed armory and opened it back up but ever since last night it's just been on scanning transaction history. I went to bed hoping it'd be done this morning, still not. I waited until now, still not done. I've closed and opened it a few times, made it rebuild and rescan the database, and did a factory reset where it deleted the armory database, rebuilt then rescanned it. In all honesty, I have no clue what I was doing usually turning something off and back on is the magic fix to computers. I tried to just take the coins out using my backup paper wallet on blockcahin.info but they said my QR code was invalid. Advice?

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[OgNasty]

It sounds like you have the private key from the address you sent coins to?  If so, try using a wallet like Electrum where you won't have to download the blockchain to transfer coins. 

[TryNinja]

Try importing your private-keys into Electrum and seeing if you can see/spend them from there, like suggested above.

Either wait for it to sync or export your private-key[1] and import it in a different wallet. If you do that in a lightweight wallet, such as Electrum[2], you won't need to download the blockchain. If you wait for it to sync, your coins will be there when it finishes. Nothing is lost.

[1] https://docslocalcoinis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/muse/migration/howto-exporting-wallet-clients.html#armory
[2] https://electrum.org/

[dankcoinz2745]

Try importing your private-keys into Electrum and seeing if you can see/spend them from there, like suggested above.

Either wait for it to sync or export your private-key[1] and import it in a different wallet. If you do that in a lightweight wallet, such as Electrum[2], you won't need to download the blockchain. If you wait for it to sync, your coins will be there when it finishes. Nothing is lost.

After doing a little bit more looking around I realized I wasn't using my private key. I used blockchain.it to empty out all my coins onto my new electrum wallet. I felt like I gave too much info to blockchain.it and just wanted to empty out the wallet and start anew.

[HCP]

Most likely there was a "stuck" or "ghost" armory process (usually armoryDB) that wasn't being killed when you closed the Armory GUI down.

Best thing is to try and shut everything down, then restart your computer and try starting Bitcoin Core (let it fully sync) and then start Armory. That should enable it to work properly. If it doesn't, you'd need to post up your log files from Armory. (Don't try and copy/paste the contents of your Armory log files directly here... they'll be too big, so use https://pastebin.com/)

Also, just checking that you are using Armory version 0.96.5 from here: https://btcarmory.com/ (DO NOT use bitcoinarmory.com!)
and Bitcoin Core 0.19.0.1?