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I have searched around, and nothing I find works for me. Downloaded the approx. 10 GB Bootstrap.dat file. Now stuck on trying to link it with Bitcoin-QT.
Tried the following command in the console box in the bitcoin-qt app:
bitcon-qt -loadblock=/path/to/bootstrap.dat
Also tried copying the file into the AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin file... Still no luck.
I'm running Windows 7, anyone have step by step instructions on how to set this up?
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Okay, it appears after much trial and error, I figured out that you put the bootstrap.dat file in the AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin or ~/.bitcoin folder. You can leave everything else in that folder untouched, just add the bootstrap.dat file in the Bitcoin folder.
I left bootstrap.dat in there, and finally Bitcoin-QT found it, and on the bottom it states "Importing blocks from disk..." I'm currently at 80 weeks behind on the update, compared to 240+.
I was reading crap about using the -loadblock command and extracting/unzipping the .dat file.... well this wasn't needed. At least it isn't needed on the current version of QT, which I believe is .8.0.5
It didn't work for me. Just left in the same directory of wallet.dat and it did not work. This directory should be empty? Without any block previously downloaded? – Felipe – 2014-03-23T00:11:08.913
On Linux, I made sure the folder was empty when I put bootstrap.dat there. Also, I used a different folder, so I started bitcoin-qt with bitcoin-qt -datadir=/media/downloads/bitcoin . Probably it saved the datadir in its config file, I will check that later. – bitchaser – 2014-10-18T19:30:18.103
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I tried putting blockfile in .bitcoin directory and starting ./bitcoind but doesn't works. By the way, this method works best for me.
./bitcoind -loadblock=~/.bitcoin/bootstrap.dat
You need to use loadbloack syntax with the ./bitcoind .
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Your question may be best addressed to the original post on the BitcoinTalk forum.
– Colin Dean – 2013-11-17T10:53:16.8202it did help me thanks! Im running bitcoin-qt 0.8.5 on a mac os10.9 , and i downloaded the bootstrap.dat file, dumped it on /application support/bitcoin/ and the client found it and started importing blocks from disk. all G! cheers – None – 2013-12-09T05:05:20.533
Any one know how to do this running windows 8 – None – 2014-01-23T13:03:53.183
This does not really answer the question. If you have a different question, you can ask it by clicking Ask Question. You can also add a bounty to draw more attention to this question once you have enough reputation.
– Stéphane Gimenez – 2014-01-23T13:20:51.417