Syncing the blockchain sucks. Previously with RC2 I waited until it synced only to find mainnet did not display my balance. If I swapped to gastacker and epool it did, but not the synced mainnet. I decided to wait for the update, updated, and now it initially says I have 2000 blocks to go (which sounds right), still displays a 0.0 balance, and then a short time later says I have only 3% of the blockchain synced and 5,xxx,xxx blocks to go. In other words another few days to sync.
I'm on windows, and usually the chain syncs to EthereumClassic in the Roaming folder. I've noticed a .emerald folder as well with almost no data in it, and I'm wondering if the update has geth use a different directory for the sync? That .emerald folder could be from when I was messing around with geth (prior to updating), attempting to get it to find my balance.
A big improvement would be to allow the user to select their database folder via the UI. Currently I'm having to use directory junctions to stop it from importing on my SSD rather than my HDD. This isn't a big issue for me, but might be for the less tech inclined user. Can't the UI just alter the --datadir variable?
Currently transferring previous chain backup to see if somehow my most recent chain got corrupted.
BelfordZ
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6 years ago
Syncing the blockchain sucks. Previously with RC2 I waited until it synced only to find mainnet did not display my balance. If I swapped to gastacker and epool it did, but not the synced mainnet. I decided to wait for the update, updated, and now it initially says I have 2000 blocks to go (which sounds right), still displays a 0.0 balance, and then a short time later says I have only 3% of the blockchain synced and 5,xxx,xxx blocks to go. In other words another few days to sync.
I'm on windows, and usually the chain syncs to EthereumClassic in the Roaming folder. I've noticed a .emerald folder as well with almost no data in it, and I'm wondering if the update has geth use a different directory for the sync? That .emerald folder could be from when I was messing around with geth (prior to updating), attempting to get it to find my balance.
A big improvement would be to allow the user to select their database folder via the UI. Currently I'm having to use directory junctions to stop it from importing on my SSD rather than my HDD. This isn't a big issue for me, but might be for the less tech inclined user. Can't the UI just alter the --datadir variable?
Currently transferring previous chain backup to see if somehow my most recent chain got corrupted.