bitcoin wallet not updating

[AForceNinja]

I had the V6.0 and it wasn't updating so I got the 6.2 and still nothing, its been hours.

I'm getting this message at the bottom of the window...

WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade.

Any ideas? thanks

[Dr.Steve]

I've seen my wallet take a long time to download the blockchain if I haven't run the bitcoin client for a long time on one of my machines. Do you have a backup of your wallet.dat?

[AForceNinja]

i do have it backed up. I tried uninstalling it but all the info is still there. where is all that data stored so i can manually delete it.

[Dr.Steve]

If you kill your data and then run the btc client, it will take a very long time to download the block chain. It took over a day for me on a macbook pro some weeks ago.

your data is located in different places depending on your os

Look here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory.

[AForceNinja]

i just deleted my "%appdata%\Bitcoin" so yea what you were saying the whole block chain is gone.

its actually updating now, 30% done in a few minutes.

thanks for the help!!

[Dr.Steve]

are there any other messages, or things spinning on the bottom right of the btc client?