MY BITCOIN WALLET TAKING FOREVER TO LOAD???

[meatsauce]

My bitcoin wallet is taking forever to load. I cant even get to 100% it seems like it will take 12 hours. Is this normal? I have some funds that were transferred to there and I cant use them because It is "synchronizing with the network"

[paladin_avatar16]

Your client needs to catch up with the blockchain and load all the blocks in existence to your harddrive.

This means 156505 blocks or 768 MB data (see http://allchains.info/). This may take a while.

Every time you start your client after this, it will download all blocks, that were created since the last run.
While this is shorter, I experienced a "waiting time" of about 1 minute for every day of blocks created ...

[meatsauce]

damn it was at 80% yesterday and I restarted. It going at a rate of 1% per 5 min.

[randomguy7]

Its not downloading everything again. The remaining 20% from yesterday are now displayed as 100%. Your 'new' download from 0% to 100% is actually the download from yesterdays 80% to 100%.

[paladin_avatar16]

Yea I wrote that a little bit confusing in my earlier post ...

You should also see the absolute blocknumber as a tooltip when moving your mouse over the symbol in the lower right corner of the client. This should give you a better idea as of where you are in the download process ...

[Gabi]

It's not your fault, the 0.5 client interface epic sucks. Before it showed how many blocks you had, now it tell you the remaining %... confuse new people:
1)cause they don't know why at each restart the % change
2)tooltip at mouse hovering without even the littlest explanation about what blocks are is more like "maybe if you are lucky and you place the mouse cursor here"...

[meatsauce]

Ok! 14,000 more blocks to go!