-oh and it says DarkSend "idle". Im having difficulty mixing coins (never tried it before). What I am doing wrong? The mixing progress bar shows nothing and after hitting Start I just get an Idle message?
it takes a few minutes to get going usually, be patient. once it starts it can be done pretty fast but can take hours depending on how deep/much you got to mix. there are numerous speed improvement in the next update that will cut down the mixing time dramatically!
i just fired up my client and reset it from 2 rounds mixing which is all i really need to 8 rounds which is overkill imo. it does the first 90%+ pretty quick but sometimes takes a while for the last 3-5%. as soon as it shows a darksend balance you can spend that and don't have to wait for it to read 100%.
once it's pre-mixed you're good to go forever and don't have to mix/wait again.
i have also had a block stick for a minute at the end of syncing but it seems to have gotten better now on the latest update. if it sticks for more than a minute or so you may need to delete the peers.dat and restart the client.