Can't get online

[PhoenixZephyrus]

I have an old i5-3570k with only 8Gigs... Armory works "OK" on my rig (like most things, a little "slow" )

I don't think you should have any issues with a Ryzen5 2600 and 16 Gigs

Unless chrome is running in the background

[HCP]

I know you're just making a joke... but I have Edge (built on Chromium I believe) running pretty much constantly with at least 5 tabs (including Gmail), more often 10+ tabs... and a Bitcoin Core full node, Electrum + Local Electrum Server in an Ubuntu WSL instance, Steam, Discord, BNet Launcher and a bunch of other stuff running... all on my 8 year old i5 with 8 Gigs of RAM

And I don't have any issues running Armory.

Doing a "normal" startup:



After a "rebuild and rescan databases":


RAM usage was below 700megs during the entire "Building Databases" phase. Took ~50mins. Transaction scanning still going Like I said... it's "a bit slow"


It's not taking up ludicrous amounts of RAM, because I simply don't have that amount of RAM in my system. I'm sure if I was running 16 or 32 gigs, then it would take as much as it could get it's hands on. Applications using large amounts of "free" RAM isn't necessarily a "bad thing"™... if nothing else needs to use it

[PhoenixZephyrus]

I know you're just making a joke... but I have Edge (built on Chromium I believe) running pretty much constantly with at least 5 tabs (including Gmail), more often 10+ tabs... and a Bitcoin Core full node, Electrum + Local Electrum Server in an Ubuntu WSL instance, Steam, Discord, BNet Launcher and a bunch of other stuff running... all on my 8 year old i5 with 8 Gigs of RAM

It's not taking up ludicrous amounts of RAM, because I simply don't have that amount of RAM in my system. I'm sure if I was running 16 or 32 gigs, then it would take as much as it could get it's hands on. Applications using large amounts of "free" RAM isn't necessarily a "bad thing"™... if nothing else needs to use it

Yeah, although it was a joke, but still I've found Edge (built on Chromium, as you said) to take up quite a bit less RAM than Chrome, and yeah, its fine for a program to take up as much RAM as it needs, so long as nothing else requires that, as having tons of free RAM is nothing useful. But Chrome is significantly more memory intensive than Edge, although being built off of the same thing. I currently have 5 normal tabs (3 bitcointalk and 1 reddit, and 1 google search) and Chrome takes up ~950MB. Opening up videos will significantly push it (opening up one youtube and gmail tabs take it to ~1.2GB). It adds up pretty fast. And I've seen people keeping ~20-30 tabs open on chrome. And in general, Chrome is about ~10-25% more of a memory hog than Edge (found from my daily use as well as other community posts):

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/etpgv1/chrome_vs_new_edge_ram_usage_power_consumption/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3513973/microsofts-new-edge-browser-third-times-the-charm.html#:~:text=Tests%20I%20ran%20using%20Task,14%25%20more%20RAM%20than%20Edge.&text=Chromium%20Edge%20is%20no%20pig,It's%20a%20very%20good%20browser.


Also, https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/236593/edge-memory-usage-improvements-are-coming-to-chrome-too :

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that the new Edge uses up to 27 percent less RAM when running on Windows 10 version 2004. But the underlying improvement comes from Windows 10, not the browser. And it looks like Chrome users will soon benefit from this as well.

“With Windows 10 [version 2004], Microsoft Edge has leveraged the Windows segment heap memory improvements now available for Win32 applications to manage memory more efficiently,” Microsoft’s Kim Denny explains. “Early internal testing results of devices on [Windows 10 version 2004] are showing a memory usage reduction of up to 27 percent when browsing with Microsoft Edge. Individual device performance will vary based upon configuration and usage, but the lower memory usage is expected to create a better experience.”

As Chrome users well know, high memory/resource usage is the number two issue with the browser, right behind the fact that it is inherently designed to be a privacy-leaking sieve designed to appease advertisers. But this problem, at least, will soon be partially solved, albeit only for those users running the browser on Windows 10 version 2004 or newer.

That was just to make sure people don't actually keep loads of tabs open while using Armory, as I've seen people keeping 50/70 tabs open up at the same time (they are nuts, how do they even manage that?! )

[EnSabahNur]

Hello,

I'm new here.

I'm running MacOS 10.13.6
Bicoin Core 0.21.0
Armory 0.93.3

I've downloaded all blockchain and it's up and running.

Armory doesn't go online. I need help, please.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you.

[bob123]

Any ideas or suggestions?

Yes.
Download the latest version of Armory (0.96.5).

Where did you get version 0.93.3 from?

[EnSabahNur]

Any ideas or suggestions?

Yes.
Download the latest version of Armory (0.96.5).

Where did you get version 0.93.3 from?

Thanks for the reply.
I've got it from their site.
The latest version is not opening with my OS...
I'm on an early 2011 Macbook 13".

[bob123]

The latest version is not opening with my OS...
I'm on an early 2011 Macbook 13".

I am not sure whether it is supposed to run on your OS, but what kind of error do you get?
Do you have all the python dependencies installed properly? If so, i'm not sure what prevents armory from starting up.

[EnSabahNur]

The latest version is not opening with my OS...
I'm on an early 2011 Macbook 13".

I am not sure whether it is supposed to run on your OS, but what kind of error do you get?
Do you have all the python dependencies installed properly? If so, i'm not sure what prevents armory from starting up.

No error. Just keeps on bouncing from the dock and all of a sudden it stops...

I guess I've lost my BTCs without being able to access the wallet. I had 30,0392 bought in mid 2011

Thanks for the info though.

[bob123]

No error. Just keeps on bouncing from the dock and all of a sudden it stops...

You could try starting it from the command line.
This should show you whats going wrong.

I guess I've lost my BTCs without being able to access the wallet. I had 30,0392 bought in mid 2011

No, you didn't.

Just because you can't get armory online, doesn't mean you can't access your BTC.

Start the old version of armory which works on your computer and export the private keys.
Armory does not need to be online to do so.
Then import these wallets into another wallet (e.g. electrum; but please verify its signature before installing). You'll gain access to your BTC again.

To export your private keys from armory: Click on Wallet properties -> Backup Wallet -> Export Key List -> Check "Address String", "Private Key" and "Include unused addresses".
Feel free to check the balance of these address in a block explorer before continuing to import them into another wallet like electrum.
If you decide to use electrum -> Create a new wallet -> "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys". Then enter your private key(s) (without the address string).

P.s. Don't react to scam message trying to "help" you.

[EnSabahNur]

No error. Just keeps on bouncing from the dock and all of a sudden it stops...

You could try starting it from the command line.
This should show you whats going wrong.

I guess I've lost my BTCs without being able to access the wallet. I had 30,0392 bought in mid 2011

No, you didn't.

Just because you can't get armory online, doesn't mean you can't access your BTC.

Start the old version of armory which works on your computer and export the private keys.
Armory does not need to be online to do so.
Then import these wallets into another wallet (e.g. electrum; but please verify its signature before installing). You'll gain access to your BTC again.

To export your private keys from armory: Click on Wallet properties -> Backup Wallet -> Export Key List -> Check "Address String", "Private Key" and "Include unused addresses".
Feel free to check the balance of these address in a block explorer before continuing to import them into another wallet like electrum.
If you decide to use electrum -> Create a new wallet -> "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys". Then enter your private key(s) (without the address string).

P.s. Don't react to scam message trying to "help" you.

Thank you for the info and advice! I'll let you know as soon as I get it done.

[HCP]

Be aware that you might also have issues getting Electrum to run if you're on such an old macbook... Electrum requires 10.13.x or higher:

OSX (10.13 and higher)

But given you have Bitcoin Core 0.21 already installed and synced... you can easily import the private keys into that using importprivkey (or importmulti)... the only downside will be waiting for it to "rescan" the blockchain. So, if you do import into Bitcoin Core, make sure you set the "rescan" parameter on the importprivkey command to false until you import the very last key.

That way, it'll only rescan once... and not every single time you import a key