Here is a little something that might help people out when setting up a new XMG wallet. You know how annoying it is when you set up a new wallet on a new machine and it takes hours upon hours to synchronize?
You need a blockchain snapshot. I will be providing a fresh blockchain snapshot every few days on the following links:-
For Linux and Windows etc where you have an unzipping utility
Zip file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vda52xjkgk8wxsq/snapshot.zipFor Windows where you do
not have an unzipping utility
Self-extracting Exe:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vbezqzwgrsa49z/snapshot.exeThis extracts the files to the user %TEMP% folder for you.
These files [blk*.dat] are about 300 Mb (zipped) at the moment and can take some time to download.
All you have to do is copy the unzipped files to the working folder - on Windows this is %appdata%\Magi - then start the wallet application and it should synchronize within minutes.
You need about 1.3 Gb of free disk space with the current size of the blockchain. This requirement will increase over time. The snapshot download is currently about 300 Mb, the temporary extracted files take up about 500 Mb and the final copy in the working folder takes up another 500 Mb. You can delete the original download file and the temporary extracted files after copying to the working folder so you can reclaim about 800 Mb afterwards.
Hope this helps
Coming back to this now and the problems that surfaced.
I made a new set of zip and exe files from a snapshot taken on a Windows 7 32 bit machine and lo and behold ... it seems to work on both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows platforms just fine now. It has taken an absolute age to test all this out! I am currently uploading to DropBox, but if some other people would like to check it out for me in, say, 30 minutes time or so to give it (and me) a sanity check I would be very grateful for that.
I will be moving the links to Google Drive in due course, since DropBox has a rather low limit on how much free storage I can have and these files will outgrow that space fairly soon. I will post the link for that another time, since I have to work out how to update files on Google Drive with newer versions without changing the download link - not sure if that is even possible yet. If anybody has a tip for that one, once again I would be very grateful. It took me a long time just to work out how to generate direct download links for files stored on Google Drive without going through the Web interface and frankly, it was a complete pita.
I could do with a beer right now
