Quote from: Fizbann on January 04, 2020, 12:00:07 AM

Quote from: natasha-otomoski on November 09, 2019, 03:25:10 PM

Prerequisites. You should have more than 250GB free disk space. Should have reliable electricity supply, with no planned power loss.

1. Download combfullui.exe from github and place it to it's own folder
2. Download btc.zip (the modified bitcoin qt 0.18.1) and unzip it.
1472af7188352b3cb95770834b260c6c44631ec528351b9d2aae49ffb17ab683 btc.zip
2. Run combfullui.exe, a window should appear. This window should not be closed. Leave it running.
3. Go to btc/bin folder, you should see the modified bitcoin qt. It should have orange circle icon.
4. Run bitcoin-qt.exe, select your data dir (place it to the disk with 250GB free space).
5. When bitcoin main window synchronizes the headers and starts downloading blocks, restart it. You should see the intro window:
6. You can let it sync for several days. When you get to block 486600 or more you can check https://127.0.0.1:2121 in browser, you should see on that it is now syncing the haircomb core with the required data.
7. If you are expert who copied over index chainstate and blocks from existing bitcoin installation, you will see the following Rescanning screen on startup:
It appears like there is no progress but there is. Simply wait patiently until Rescanning... is over and your core wallet appears.
8. Finally you get to the stage where only a few blocks remain. Wait until it's finished.
9. If you refresh your haircomb core browser observe that the blocks being synced are identical in the last stage.
10. Finally it's synced. You should see the total number of blocks synced in haircomb core is same as on Bitcoin network.
You can also verify with other synced haircomb users that the fingerprint in their haircomb core is the same as yours

Hello there!

I just learned about this project and I am trying to sync the wallet.
I was past block ~~500k~~ yet it wasn't synced up and commits.db file was empty.

I decided to restart the process just in case, it is approaching that block number again and the commits.db is still empty.

Should I still follow that procedure? (Besides getting the latest versions from the repo)

edit: will wait for 602614+ blocks as seen on post

make sure to follow proper steps on shutting down, at first i didnt notice them and corrupted the commits and needed to start over.