I did some digging and realised you need to have armory on 2 pc's and also have bitcoin core installed, Ive since installed armory on the 2nd pc and also installed bitcoin core and it says its working and I should now be able to see my transactions.
Ive made a copy of the wallet I made and put it on a memory stick and Ive now got the same 2 wallets on each pc, thing is it says both wallets are offline, Im now lost on what to do to find my coins?
That's not quite correct. You do not need to have Armory installed on 2 PC's... that is only required if you wish to use an "online+offline airgapped PC" setup... You can definitely have Armory working fine using just one PC.
However, you are correct that you definitely need to have Bitcoin Core installed
and fully synced (and not running in "pruned" mode).
sorry for the long post, tried usiong pastebin but couldnt gererate a link, one question does bitcoin core need to be 100% downloaded before armory will work?
Yes. If you don't have Bitcoin Core installed and fully synced, then Armory will not function correctly... at the very least, it will likely not show your transaction history or correct balance.
This is the software I download on the 3rd and generated the address from, I can download again, Im pretty sure it was from the same site you gave me. The 0.96 was on the other pc with bitcoin core.
2021-01-07 09:35:03 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:1287 - Loading Armory Engine:
2021-01-07 09:35:03 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:1288 - Armory Version : 0.96.5
This is a good start... This PC definitely has the latest version of Armory.
2021-01-07 09:35:05 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1872 - setSatoshiPaths
2021-01-07 09:35:05 (ERROR) -- BDM.pyc:268 - setSatoshiDir: directory does not exist: C:\Users\Gary\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2021-01-07 09:35:05 (ERROR) -- ArmoryQt.py:1862 - Failed to setup SDM
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ArmoryQt.py", line 1857, in startBitcoindIfNecessary
File "SDM.pyc", line 190, in setupSDM
BitcoindError: bitcoind not found
2021-01-07 09:35:05 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1923 - Setting netmode: 0
2021-01-07 09:35:08 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1872 - setSatoshiPaths
2021-01-07 09:35:08 (ERROR) -- BDM.pyc:268 - setSatoshiDir: directory does not exist: C:\Users\Gary\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
Unfortunately, this is a problem. You do not have Bitcoin Core installed, synced and running on this machine.
I would suggest you focus on getting Armory and Bitcoin Core installed and running on ONE computer... and then you can move to a 2 computer setup later if you want the added security of the online+offline airgapped setup.