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"Activating best chain" can't access wallet. #73

Closed XYZclassic closed 7 years ago

XYZclassic commented 7 years ago

When opening wallet, I get the spinning box animation and the message "activating best chain". The message does not go away and I cannot access the wallet.

I am using v1.0.6 with the eleos windows client.

Machine specs:

Any extra information that might be useful in the debugging process.

I can't find the debug log in eleos.

Do you have a back up of ~/.zcash directory and/or take a VM snapshot?

Could you please tell me what to redact? I'm not a dev so I don't know where info like my seed/coins are.

Thank you in advance for your help!

XYZclassic commented 7 years ago

Okay so I resolved this by running 'zcashd -reindex'. This took a LONG time to get to the current block height. ~ 40 minutes with 55mbps down. Can you please explain how to back up the coins? I'm a new user and want to support ZCL but so far my experience is shaky. Perhaps putting this in the README for other new users would be a good idea. Thanks so much!

jmprcx commented 7 years ago

For windows the wallet.dat file is stored in %APPDATA%/Zclassic or %APPDATA%/Zcash.

Once I get some time I'll work on creating the documentation :0)

XYZclassic commented 7 years ago

Awesome! I completely missed that folder because I assumed there was only an Eleos folder in %appdata%. So if I backup wallet.dat, what is the purpose of the dump file produced by zcashd -exportdir=PATH -daemon zcash-cli z_exportwallet MyWallet? Also, I'm guessing just overwriting a wallet.dat file restores the wallet. That seems way easier than using z_importwallet. I appreciate the help

WaveringAna commented 7 years ago

Closing due to staleness