Me too. I did the bootstrap from kiklo and overnight I'm all caught up
Interesting. Bootstrap worked for me very quickly, a matter of hours.
Odds are you used My Snapshot instead of the Bootstrap.
(Mint Bootstrap will take days, My Snapshot only a few hours)Snapshots will be ready very fast compared to a Bootstrap.dat which Mint team recommends.
Difference between a Snapshot & a BootStrap.dat file.
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