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Board Armory
Re: Armory Client showing zero balance after crash and rebuild
by
-pANIC-
on 06/03/2014, 17:02:48 UTC

Is this with the testing build?

Yes, I used the testing build on a 3rd machine I have here and that failed after about 12 hours with this: http://i.imgur.com/d7zL3Tt.png
I have a laptop here (second machine referenced above) that was originally installed with the 0.90-beta which kept failing so I tried using the 0.90-99 beta you mentioned and it also fails.

So this is occurring on 3 completely separate systems with completely different hardware, all running Windows 7 x64.  

The steps I followed:

1) Downloaded the Armory software from the main site.
2) Ran Armory installation but it complains about not seeing the Bitcoin installation so after clicking the 'auto-install' button to only be prompted that auto-install doesn't work I manually downloaded and installed Bitcoin 0.8.6, upon installation completion I closed Bitcoin and then loaded up Armory.  (If Bitcoin had created any uncomplete blockchain files at this point I also deleted those so that Armory could initiate that process through bitcoind)
3) Skipped the creation / importation of a wallet.
4) Left the software to download the blockchain. (after 4 tries that's about 60GB's, my ISP will loooooove me!)
5) At some point during the night it crashes.  

Unless the process I'm following is inherently wrong I would say that the software is incredibly buggy.  
What are your thoughts on this, have I lost my BTC?  Let's be honest.  Nothing I've tried seems to work and I think I've tried just about everything *that should work*.  IF so, this questions the integrity of the software and will most likely result in people not using the software.