Quote from: cr1776 on July 25, 2016, 09:51:34 AM

Quote from: Prutser112 on July 25, 2016, 08:57:49 AM

Quote from: knightdk on July 23, 2016, 07:44:33 PM

Quote from: Prutser112 on July 23, 2016, 07:23:59 PM

Is it normal that my Mac nearly overheats from downloading this Blockchain?
The fan is meanwhile blowing full speed and still I can nearly bake an egg on the alu housing...

Bitcoin Core is pretty hardware intensive, especially when it has to index the blocks (as with downloading or reindexing). I wouldn't say that this is normal per se, but it certainly is not uncommon nor unexpected.

Hello Knightdk,

After two day's the blockchain still is not fully loaded.
This morning the macbook reported me that Bitcoin Core program was terminated cause of "no more free memory" with a red stop sign.

I have 250 GB SSD, little to no programs on system, little amount of pictures, no video's, but still it say's that all my memory is used.

The block chain still to be pulled in, is of last 6 days.

Now trying to make space.

Hi,
If the message really is "no more free memory" that should be referring to memory, e.g. RAM, not disk space. However with 8GB of RAM, you should not be running out of memory. Was that the exact message?

And, how much free disk space do you have? (That was one reason I asked earlier if you had an external hard disk drive attached because it was possible that you had done so in order to hold the block chain and avoid running out of disk space).

It is possible that since the program quit because you had no more free memory that it isn't current and you might need to do a rescan.

One suggestion for you to consider would be to dump the private keys from your wallet.dat files and then find the address that had your balance and use a different lightweight wallet (e.g. one that doesn't need the entire block chain). This would avoid all the delays doing a rescan or re-downloading the block chain.

Hello CR1776,

It was not a message about memory/RAM, it was about free disk space. (my wrong description)
The exact message I don't have anymore cause it disappeared quickly, only a pop up message from the mac.

Now I have been deleting 'useless' things and empty garbage, 90 GB free.
So that should do.
I did not store the chain on another/external HDD cause I thought I had space enough.

The program Bitcoin Core is now ready, while starting the prog, it said re-scanning and showing a progress in percentages.
After starting full, the page say's still 0,000000000 BTC, no transactions, nothing.

I have just asked/contacted the seller of my Bitcoins for help.
The wallet.dat file will be mailed to them in a secure way and they will try to regain control over the Bitcoins.