Re: NEM (XEM) Official Thread - New Update 0.6.43 - Please Update Your Nodes
Argh...what I don't like is that I always need to stop and start harvesting after an update. it costs 12 hours (6hr for stop, and 6 hrs to start again). 
Hi Kelsey. Please don't mind the BTT trolls. They have their own selfish agenda in trading NEM.
What is the problem your NIS?
for a week or so NIS hasn't fully synced, few days it was saying 1 day behind, now for a few days its been saying 2 days behind.
as a result any blocks i harvest (all saying 20% difficulty) later disappear.
You got a bad line to the net? Bad line to the net causes that.
Something else that causes a problem like that is having the computer sleep or shutdown while NEM is running. Sometimes when the computer starts back up, NEM is fine but sometimes it isn't. In that case your database can be corrupted and you have to follow this guide to remove your database and sync a new one from scratch (luckily that usually doesn't take too long). http://blog.nem.io/how-to-delete-your-local-copy-of-the-blockchain/
yep one of the first things i'd tried, and done twice since, still never fully syncs.
Are you perhaps not running version 0.6.42 or 0.6.43? If you aren't you will have to update and then delete the chain and sync again. We recently had a hard fork to bring in new features and any old software won't work.
If you have updated, I am suspicious that somehow maybe some of the old NEM files got mixed into the new ones somehow. But lets check your version first.
yep on 6.43, and have since the trouble uninstalled reinstalled etc etc etc still no luck.
hmmm crashing because of NIS sync issues?
Hi Kelsey. Please don't mind the BTT trolls. They have their own selfish agenda in trading NEM.
What is the problem your NIS?
for a week or so NIS hasn't fully synced, few days it was saying 1 day behind, now for a few days its been saying 2 days behind.
as a result any blocks i harvest (all saying 20% difficulty) later disappear.
You got a bad line to the net? Bad line to the net causes that.
Something else that causes a problem like that is having the computer sleep or shutdown while NEM is running. Sometimes when the computer starts back up, NEM is fine but sometimes it isn't. In that case your database can be corrupted and you have to follow this guide to remove your database and sync a new one from scratch (luckily that usually doesn't take too long). http://blog.nem.io/how-to-delete-your-local-copy-of-the-blockchain/
yep one of the first things i'd tried, and done twice since, still never fully syncs.
Are you perhaps not running version 0.6.42 or 0.6.43? If you aren't you will have to update and then delete the chain and sync again. We recently had a hard fork to bring in new features and any old software won't work.
If you have updated, I am suspicious that somehow maybe some of the old NEM files got mixed into the new ones somehow. But lets check your version first.
yep on 6.43, and have since the trouble uninstalled reinstalled etc etc etc still no luck.
Just don't deactivate and then reactivate delegated harvesting and you can start harvesting again immediately after update. There's no reason to deactivate delegated harvesting. All delegated harvesting does is map your account's importance to another account. Starting/stopping software has nothing to do with that mapping because it is on the block chain.