What happened to me was that Abe would act like it was up to date. I saw blkfile_number set to 1 and the last modified for blk0001.dat at the same date with a blk0002.dat, so I added the row with blkfile_number = 2. Then I got a permissions error from Abe on the second file, changed the permissions, and it worked. I'm checking the datadir now and it appears that the existing row also now has the right blkfile_number, so adding the row was not necessary. I'll correct my previous post.