So, wallet 1.4.2 is now unable to sync more than a few blocks each time it is opened and hangs when exiting, forcing me to kill the process with task manager. I see there is a new beta wallet available that seems to address a similar issue, but I am not real keen on beta testing wallets, nor on having to delete the entire %appdata%\intensecoin directory tree and start over from scratch, but it looks like I'm going to have to do one or both.
I am experiencing similar problems with the new wallet beta, 1.4.5, except this time the daemon syncs up fine but the GUI wallet hangs after a random number of blocks are synced. Since I've been screwing around with this for nearly 2 days, which is about 47.75 hours longer than I should spend on a wallet software upgrade, I renamed the %appdata%\intensecoin directory and am starting over from block 1 with the 1.4.2 wallet.
Also, the instructions for importing an existing 1.4.2 or earlier wallet into the 1.4.5 wallet are incomplete/incorrect, but seeing as I can't even the newer wallet to work I can't really provide more details than that.
The new wallet daemon typically updates blocks in 100 increments, that’s from my own experience. Are you having issues where it is not updating at all? If so, make sure you have added it to the exception list for your antivirus and/or windows defender. Additionally, make sure you have the old wallet closed when trying to sync the new wallet. This will ensure that it syncs properly.
Yes, I have noticed that Windows Defender has been flagging more wallets as malware lately and have adding them to the exception list proactively. It's getting to the point where I am going to give up and just add c:\ to the exception list and be done with it completely.
As I mentioned already - ahem - the old wallet, and the new one, would sync a few blocks each time I ran either of them before hanging. However, the problem with the new wallet may have been because I used the blockchain import binary to - theoretically - bootstrap the blockchain for the new wallet but I had failed to rename the old %appdata%\intensecoin directory first... so, files likely got overwritten or corrupted or something. Anyway, I renamed said directory and have proceeded with syncing the blockchain all over again with 1.4.2 so that I can - hopefully - recover my wallet
Wow, those are some seriously consumer-unfriendly instructions and not at all what I tried to do on my own (which may be why what I did didn't work). I'll give that a shot after 1.4.2 finishes syncing and if it keeps crashing, because to be perfectly blunt, I am sick of beta testing wallets and hard forks this week.
lets show them some love and RT this:
