Topic: HoboNickels - HBN - High Fast Stake - Version 2.0! More Secure, Less Intensive - page 228. (Read 478852 times)

well it went from 750k blocks or so remaining to 250k blocks remaining in just a few hours so it seems like the full re-sync doesn't take too long for anyone who was wondering. And, the wallet loads insanely fast now, took about 10 seconds to load for me, great work as always Tranz!!

Thanks guys!

I have released 1.4.0.1 tonight. I put in on the release page. https://github.com/Tranz5/HoboNickels/releases

This version will require you to re-index, as the block hash is now added to the index. This speeds up start up time by 10-20x. I personally went from 5 minutes to 15 seconds. The re-index will happen automatically, so if you want to keep your old version of files, please be sure to make a backup for blk001.dat and txleveldb folder before you start this up.

I have had mix results from re-indexing from peers. 2 out of 7 times, after I was up to current block and closed and re-opened it. I got the dreaded assert failure.

One thing that can be done, to help, is to stop the client every 200k blocks and take a quick snapshot of the blk0001.dat and txleveldb folder.  Then start it backup.

I have also put a copy for my blk0001.dat and txleveldb folder here  http://www.fileswap.com/dl/SnNNULZqH/   You can use this to overlay your files and then you should only have a few thousand blocks to catchup on.

md5sum block_chain_backup_April_10_1.4.1.zip
5910921e0633794c15343431ac88e4df *block_chain_backup_April_10_1.4.1.zip


These are only compatibly with version 1.4.0.1+

Please let me know if you have any problems.

Finally Unick. I will be posting a few more fixes for the Mac client here in the next few days. I'll let you know, but if you can try them out and let me know how it goes I would appreciate it.

Thanks all!

If it says "checkpoint too old" it means its not something is still wrong. I'll suggest downloading or compiling a new wallet.

It should have only been syncing about 4 days worth because i gave it my saved complete roaming folder to read

however now i let it download complete new blockchain and gave it my "saved database" directory and ".wallet" file and everything seem's fine but i do have a warning saying "checkpoint too old"

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Using this is ok. Best to create your own index, but this is safe enough. However you shouldn't replace your database directory, this is used for the wallet.dat.  Just need the blk0001.dat and the leveldb directory. Those 2 are for the block chain.  wallet.dat and database directory work for the wallet.dat

I just learned something new about the file structure... thanks

Using this is ok. Best to create your own index, but this is safe enough. However you shouldn't replace your database directory, this is used for the wallet.dat.  Just need the blk0001.dat and the leveldb directory. Those 2 are for the block chain.  wallet.dat and database directory work for the wallet.dat

hobonickels appears to have accomplished what 99% of the other altcoins have not been able to: slow and steady price gains that don't seem to be in any danger of crashing back down. Kudos to Tranz! I think the fact that he hasn't been pushing the coin on every exchange under the sun, or doing any of the other stupid tryhard marketing efforts that most coins do nowadays, is a pretty clear indicator that those are not what makes a coin grow.

check out here to get a working copy of the blockchain just a few days back

http://wiki.hobonickels.info/index.php?title=Replace_Blockchain

I had the same problem. I just deleted everything except for my wallets. downloading the blockchain again, its going to take a while. If you can get it to sync without deleting anything, that's even better.