Admittedly - it is VERY slow ...

However, there literally is no other way (BootStrap or BlockChain copy) of syncing this due to the fork that happened long before we took over the project. Under most syncs, whenever the wallet hits that forked block and the orphans start to accumulate, the wallet automatically starts to sync via peers from there on.

So the best way to do this is let it go, and let it sync. It will take some time.

The new wallet and new codebase is nothing like this. It is fast. We are working towards a public beta very soon. So far internal testing shows it is stable, but still needs some tweaking.

#crysx