Since I updated the the 1.8 wallet, I keep randomly noticing that the wallet will go from fully sync'd to suddenly saying ~7800 blocks remaining. (or a similar number but it's always close to 8k when I notice it)
If I let it go it eventually syncs again but this can't be normal... anyone else experiencing this??
recently spent a lot of time in the Clean Water Coin IRC chat room while testing their wallet for fixes. It sounds like you could have one of several possible problems.
This helped me tremendously with issues I was having with the wallet. It was a temporary fix to bypass issues with bad code.
BACK UP WALLET.DAT
We are going to be re-naming your Mintcoin -qt.exe file
1. Close your wallet if it is open.
2.. Go to your MINTCOIN wallet folder and right click on "Mintcoin -qt.exe", and rename it to "Mintcoin -qt -salvagewallet -repairwallet -connect=0.exe"
3. Start Wallet and see if it helps.
If not:
1. Your Mintcoin.conf file needs to be updated to all known GOOD nodes. If it has nodes (IP addresses) that are the wrong block height, your wallet will not be able to synch right. One thing I also noticed is that a lot of people aren't keeping their .conf file in the %appdata%\Mintcoin folder, and are instead keeping it in the wallet folder. Move it over to the %appdata%\Mintcoin folder if this is the case.
These are my current .conf file settings, and my wallet just minted on time successfully yesterday, so they are working just fine. You can open your .conf file and see if your values are different. If they are, try pasting mine in and restarting wallet.
testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=82.73.249.168
addnode=173.69.49.106
addnode=82.131.33.87
addnode=96.244.241.62
addnode=79.103.60.211
addnode=115.187.228.119
addnode=93.103.143.167
addnode=71.204.235.217
addnode=50.171.251.116
addnode=65.25.244.83
addnode=76.91.118.4
addnode=91.61.40.108
addnode=98.177.158.203
addnode=98.207.109.245
addnode=75.174.4.1
addnode=99.245.184.159
addnode=78.83.27.181
addnode=96.18.173.160
addnode=118.123.116.219
addnode=173.26.106.194
addnode=82.233.163.250
addnode=177.140.202.7
addnode=97.81.64.44
addnode=79.166.77.203
addnode=68.145.81.59
addnode=181.165.200.142
addnode=144.76.220.169
maxconnections=100
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=yourser
rpcpassword=yourpw
rpcport=12789
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
Hope that helps!