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Offline stanno

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Well good luck......lets hope there's a fix for us soon.....I'm off to bed....!!..

mine wouldn't sync either, until i grabbed the peers.dat file from another laptop that had the wallet.  that's in the .lottoshares folder on linux.  fresh installs weren't fixing it, but once i put that peers.dat and of course the wallet.dat, everything started working.

that may not help you now, as you need to have a copy from a fresh install.   maybe build a VM, install the wallet and grab the peers.dat from there?  or paste your wallet.dat into the VM and call it good?

just tossing ideas out there now......

one thing i have noticed about the blockchain re-update process.  usually keeping a copy of wallet.dat and wiping everythign else is good enough to get the job done.  with the LTS wallet, i've had to keep the wallet.dat and the peers.dat, since the wallet has been unable to re-create the peer.dat file on its own.  could be a bug?

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Well good luck......lets hope there's a fix for us soon.....I'm off to bed....!!..

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Yep. I get no connection. Uninstall. Delete data file. Re download. Now when it is downloading blockchain, it crashes and I can't re-open. The only difference now is that it asks me to send a report. This was my home PC. On the VPS, I installed and get 8 connections for about ten seconds, the blockchain has been stuck at 14 days old with no connections now for 4 hours. Quit, restart, still 8 connections and the day ticker in the bottom right corner goes in revers until it stops and says no connections. I am giving up. Was at work all day trying to juggle this and get home to the same problems.

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Yes I'm still in trouble........went back to 4.8 version.....it updated quickly until about 1 hr to go....then stopped completely.....so I uninstalled 4.8......and went to 4.9 again........and now it is exactly like it was before ....no connection at all.....
Really not sure what to do now....

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you can go here http://dacsunlimited.com/binaries/wallet/  and get any version you like.

i'm thinking my current sync issues may be due to my need to upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9.  waiting for an answer to my sync question before i go that route.

No the old version are not working because of the hard fork. You should install version 0.4.9-a this is the one working. Also I suggest to do a clean installation too : https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7849.msg103955#msg103955

i figured that was the issue, since my wallet stopped updating at an even numbered block.  340800.  some random network issue or whatever would have a very small chance of stopping the sync at such an even number.

i just installed over the top, and it's working just fine.  maybe i'll do a clean install on the next upgrade...

No if it is working no need for clean install :) 
That suggestion was for Zen1 cause he seems to still have trouble. In my case only the clean install fixed everything.

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you can go here http://dacsunlimited.com/binaries/wallet/  and get any version you like.

i'm thinking my current sync issues may be due to my need to upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9.  waiting for an answer to my sync question before i go that route.

No the old version are not working because of the hard fork. You should install version 0.4.9-a this is the one working. Also I suggest to do a clean installation too : https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7849.msg103955#msg103955

i figured that was the issue, since my wallet stopped updating at an even numbered block.  340800.  some random network issue or whatever would have a very small chance of stopping the sync at such an even number.

i just installed over the top, and it's working just fine.  maybe i'll do a clean install on the next upgrade...

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you can go here http://dacsunlimited.com/binaries/wallet/  and get any version you like.

i'm thinking my current sync issues may be due to my need to upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9.  waiting for an answer to my sync question before i go that route.

No the old version are not working because of the hard fork. You should install version 0.4.9-a this is the one working. Also I suggest to do a clean installation too : https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7849.msg103955#msg103955

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that's weird.  you must have something else going on with your computer.   I just upgraded to the latest version, 4.9, and my wallet synced right up.  no problems at all.

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Thanks ...but I've just upgraded to that version and now I'm more worse off than before...:-(

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you can go here http://dacsunlimited.com/binaries/wallet/  and get any version you like.

i'm thinking my current sync issues may be due to my need to upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9.  waiting for an answer to my sync question before i go that route.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2014, 08:48:36 pm by stanno »

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Thanks stanno...

Unfortunately I'm in a slightly worse position now because I've just updated to the latest wallet version 0.4.9.0 and I have no connection/s at all....my fund balence is also not showing but I guess that's due to the no connection issue.
Not sure what to do now.....is it possible to go back to earlier versions at all....or advisable ..?...

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Could someone outline exactly how to update to a new wallet version please...or provide a 'how to' guide link...?..Maybe my current slow Syncing experience is caused by running the 0.4.7.0 version..?
Thanks......

make a copy of the wallet folder found at C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\BitShares X\wallets, assuming you're on Windows.  put the copy on your desktop or somewhere safe.

once you have a copy of the wallet folder, just run the setup program.  4.08 worked fine for me. fixed all my sync issues.

i didn't feel the need to uninstall the previous version or to delete anything from the AppData\Roaming\BitShares X directory, and it worked just fine. 

many ways to skin this cat.  all of them should get the job done.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2014, 08:12:04 pm by stanno »

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Cleaner install although  it takes more time :

1. File -> Export Wallet (just in case)
2- Uninstall your BitsahresX
3. Go to C:\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\BitShares X and delete all except your folder wallet.
4. Install the new version(0.4.9.-a) it will take a while to sync again.   

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Thank you for your help....much appreciated.

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Download the new version, install it by replacing the old version, open the new version....

It is slow, that's normal. If you want to accelerate the syncing, you need to add some nodes mannually. Just like those in this thread:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7804.0

Hopefully next version will fix the no connection problem.
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