If you are updating now you will have to do a clean install. That means backup your wallet.dat to a safe location, and delete everything mintcoin. When you get the new wallet, place your back up in the appdata folder and launch.
There is a .conf file in the new wallet, don't use unofficial sources for your wallet :
http://mintcoin.cc/download-wallet/Edit: To find your appdata folder- Click Windows button on left bottom of screen and put this in search box: %APPDATA%/MintCoin
Notes- You will find Mintcoin files in your download folder and your appdata folder. If you delete everything EXCEPT wallet.dat you will be able to do a clean install.
-Future versions shouldn't require these extra steps. This is a result of going from hybrid PoW\PoS to pure PoS
Ok - I was having problems for the last couple of days with 1.7 - The wallet would be in sync (current date/time/blocks), and then suddenly it would say that it was syncing, with ~4k to ~8k blocks to go... even though the date/time would be the current date/time. Like it had four to eight thousand blocks to sync over the last minute or so.
When I took this screenshot, it was indeed today at 12:22 pm, yet ~6000 blocks out of sync, even though it reported that it was synced just moments earlier - and transactions were almost instantaneous, so I would not agree that it was really out of sync at all:
First thing I did was to try deleting the
peers.dat file, hoping there was an issue with a peer or two. It synced up, but within a couple of minutes, it happened again.
Next thing I did was to remove all of the addnodes from the .conf file, to more aggressively try to weed out the possibility of a
"bad peer". Same thing happened.
So I deleted the
/users/yadayada/appdata/roaming/mintcoin dir, and re-downloaded the entire blockchain which took hours (which confuses me, because I'm using broadband, and I haven't had a problem with my other wallets - but that's a separate issue for another time).
It happened again for a very brief period, but as I type this, it has managed to stay synced for a couple of hours. Hopefully it has been solved.
My dilemma is I don't know if I want to take the chance on 1.8 yet or not. It depends on whether this is will be the "final" update re:Heartbleed issue. If not - I'd rather wait until that.
So, short question: Is there anything further that will need to be done to resolve any
critical issues? Or should I go ahead and update?
Secondarily - does anyone have any ideas what might cause the issue I was describing with the sudden 4 or 5 thousand block out-of-sync issue? (Again - when it said this - it listed the correct time/date). Also, do I need to re-dl the whole blockchain again? (Man - I hope not! lol!)
Thanks.