well been 3 days syncing and not half way yet and sticks quite often, maybe it will get done next week lol would like to transfer coins to it.
Have noticed sticking , until a fix is worked out ,
When you notice it sticking , close Mintcoin, and reopen it , on mine it jumps over the part where it was stuck when I do that.
when it sticks I close and restart and re scans quite awhile before wallet opens, almost got may thru lol getting there
Perseverance pays off...
But if you want to speed it up some more, you can do a trick by checking your MintCoin.conf file and make sure you have all good addnodes in there. You can check it against the peers you are connected to by looking at your Mintcoin wallet debug console and typing "getpeerinfo" (without the quotes).
Then you can see the nodes/peers you are connected to and check to see if their blockchains are mostly complete or not.
If their blockchain is not close to the total amount of blocks then you should make sure that in your MintCoin.conf file that ip is not listed in your list of addnodes.
You may also want to create some addnodes with the ip addresses of ones you see have the full blockchain. This will make it so when you go to open the wallet, your client will try to connect to those ip addresses first. I recommend having about 7 addnodes that you know are good IPs. So since it will establish 12 connections, 7 will be guaranteed to be good, while the other 5 will be random and help distribute the networks inter-connectivity. Between the 7 good nodes, they will speed up your syncing so it should be complete within about 1 day.
As always, if you make changes to your MintCoin.conf file then after you save it, restart your wallet to see the effects of the changes. It can take up to about 15 minutes or so after you restart to see it get all its connections and start syncing, but after a while it will be way faster at syncing than if you had a bunch of bad nodes with incomplete blockchains that it was trying to sync with.
If you are confused, and need a longer explanation about the MintCoin.conf file look here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5001706