Hey I've been having more luck since starting fresh with abe and the blockchain. I'm trying to get abe to use RPC but it always says either "catch_up_rpc: abort" or "Exception: RPC load failed." The bitcoin client is the first time I've ever seen RPC so I am very unfamiliar with it. It does seem, however to be a better way for abe to update the database instead of reading the blockfiles over and over again.

So my question is this. How do I make it work? I have a ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf which contains the rpc username and password, and told it to listen for rpc on port 8332 (plus other settings). That port is correctly forwarded in my router. In abe.conf I have (among other things)

datadir += [{
        "dirname": "/home//.bitcoin",
        "loader": "rpc",    # See the comments for default-loader below.
        "chain": "Bitcoin"
      }]


Is there any more information you need? Is there someway I can tell abe to connect to bitcoind with RPC over a specific port?

Thanks for your help.

Matt