@nickelback65: usually you can't open the wallet if NIS is not synchronized. I think best thing at this point is to shut down NIS and NCC and restart. If it still doesn't work I think i need the NIS logs to see what is going wrong.
@BloodyRookie: I appreciate your help. The wallet opens and displays my XEM balance and allows me to harvest. The NIS is running and is fully synchronized and NCC is running.
When I try to send NEM from my wallet it tells me that it is still loading blocks and I have to wail until it is fully loaded. Does this mean that I have to keep my wallet open until the db is loaded and the wallet is synchronized? How long should this take?
Thanks.
What block are you at? If you are syncing from scratch, maybe a few hours I guess. If you are just syncing from the last time you used it, it will be pretty quickly.
Right now we are on about block #126446
http://chain.nem.ninja/#/blocks/0 So that should give you and idea about how fast it is syncing.
After it has synced you can send and receive just fine.
If you need to send something right away, you can go to settings and change "local host" to any IP found on
http://www.nodeexplorer.com/ and you will be able to send instantly.
If you are running the stand alone or installer, after you have started NEM and opened the wallet, you are safe to close the wallet and your browser. The NEM NIS should continue syncing in the background. If you are also harvesting, it will continue to harvest in the background.