Quote from: rdyoung on April 18, 2016, 05:58:22 PM

Quote from: Helt on April 18, 2016, 05:26:11 PM

What folder does one put the bootstrap.dat in?

Tried a few different folders in the Appdata/Roaming/Potcoin folder without luck.

If someone could give a detailed description of the procedure that would be great.

You need to drop it in the folder that has the wallet.dat and relaunch the qt.

First quit/exit the running wallet.
Second move/copy/whatever the bootstrap.dat into the potcoin folder under appdata.
Third launch the wallet again and it should indicate that its parsing the files from the disk, when thats finished which can take awhile depending on the speed of hdd and ram, etc it will start syncing from the network.

Alternatively you can grab the quick start pack I have up on amazon cloud. I have a batch file that will launch the qt and designate the local folder for the data so you can move it around and don't have to hunt through appdata nor worry about losing it if you need to reinstall windows.

Thanks!

Turns out it was already working as I had the bootstrap file in the right folder, but it was going so slow I thought it was getting the blocks from the network.
On my PC it's almost as slow as synching normally. Might try on another machine with a SSD drive to see if it goes faster.

Helt

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