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Board Armory
Re: Can I have bitcoin core open and star armory too or only armory can be open?
by
Flanagan
on 06/07/2015, 16:08:11 UTC
Which version are you using?

I explained in my post that I would rather not close bitcoin core because it seems stuck downloading the "last 9 hours" of the blockchain and if I close it I might get the reindex problem again, so that' why I wanted to open armory, to see if I can check my offline wallets now, but without closing bitcoin core for the reason explained. So I can do it? there's an option in armory?...to uncheck that option I'd have to open armory at the same time as bitcoin core open now. Want to make sure it's ok to do so before opening armory.

Thanks for your reply.

You only need to open Armory for syncing when Bitcoin Core is run as a background process to download blockchain. You don't need to run Bitcoin Core manually for downloading blocks. That is why, I am asking "why you need to run Bitcoin Core and Armory simultaneously?" Why don't you run Armory alone?

0.93.2 windows 7 is version of armory I have.

The reason I prefered to download the blocks with bitcoin core is because previously I had done so with armory but at some point it seemed stuck and even said offline at bottom right, so I figured it'd be better to first download and reindex everything with bitcoin core and after that start armory to quickly check my offline wallets.
Right now situation is I have bitcoin core open; it finished reindexing everything today and continued to download the remaining blocks, at the moment bitcoin core seems stuck in "last 9 hours"; I'm afraid to close bitcoin core and open instead armory because, if I close bitcoin core now I may have the reindex needed thing again (done reindexing 2 times already, 3 days each time, and about 4 days when I downloaded the blockchain...