btw, another way to sync is to get bootstrap.dat and let wallet sync from it (place it in the same folder where wallet.dat is, on mac it's /Users//Library/Application Support/Coin2.1/ ).
http://c2chain.info/bootstrap.dat (183k+ blocks)
That's not the "clean" bootstrap as it should be, that's just renamed blk0001.dat but it should work almost the same (will require few "reorganize" actions but this will happen automagically and will not require any action from you, so it should work fine afaik).
It will take a while and gui will not show up until sync is done so it could look like nothing is happening (or even Coin2.1-Qt will be shown as "Not Responding" in Activity Monitor) but just let it run. You might also need to delete blk* files before trying to use this method but I'm not sure about this.
In case you are on mac you can make sure that process is running fine by tailing debug.log in Terminal like this:
tail /Users//Library/Application Support/Coin2.1/debug.log | grep height
or
tail -f /Users//Library/Application Support/Coin2.1/debug.log | grep height
"-f" should give you a lot of output (hit "ctrl + C" to stop tailing - I'm sure you don't want these 183k+ lines to be output one by one in next hour or so
)
Interesting part there is "height" which is current block being processed.
I tested this by myself and on my mac I was able to sync from scratch in about one hour and ten minutes.
PS. might be a good idea to place link to bootstrap.dat (or link to this message) in OP
http://c2chain.info/bootstrap.dat (183k+ blocks)
That's not the "clean" bootstrap as it should be, that's just renamed blk0001.dat but it should work almost the same (will require few "reorganize" actions but this will happen automagically and will not require any action from you, so it should work fine afaik).
It will take a while and gui will not show up until sync is done so it could look like nothing is happening (or even Coin2.1-Qt will be shown as "Not Responding" in Activity Monitor) but just let it run. You might also need to delete blk* files before trying to use this method but I'm not sure about this.
In case you are on mac you can make sure that process is running fine by tailing debug.log in Terminal like this:
tail /Users/
or
tail -f /Users/
"-f" should give you a lot of output (hit "ctrl + C" to stop tailing - I'm sure you don't want these 183k+ lines to be output one by one in next hour or so
)Interesting part there is "height" which is current block being processed.
I tested this by myself and on my mac I was able to sync from scratch in about one hour and ten minutes.
PS. might be a good idea to place link to bootstrap.dat (or link to this message) in OP
Thanks for this!!
Just tried this method and it worked a treat!
Like you said, took just over an hour to sync.
Thanks.
