Failed to open (Invalid Plots) Help!!

[ZorgWbm]

Hi,
I am using different computers and different hard drives for plotting. End of the day I am adding all plots to the one big capacity harddrive but after adding them my full node can't open them because it's says failed to open (invalid plot). I restarted the node and re-add the plot directory but still the same. Do you know any reason for this? Thanks.

[lvcivs]

Have you used chia plots check to see whether all plots are OK? Are you sure you have used the same set of keys on all machines?

[ZorgWbm]

Yes I used the same seed for all my computers. When I check the plots it gives the below messages.

2021-05-11T11:16:23.299 chia.plotting.plot_tools : ERROR Failed to open file E:\Plots3\plot-k32-2021-05-09-18-56-9cf6bd9e998f9c502f0a571be2aecd02f37f5a82dc8bb4e3d9f81392687f93bd.plot. Invalid file E:\Plots3\plot-k32-2021-05-09-18-56-9cf6bd9e998f9c502f0a571be2aecd02f37f5a82dc8bb4e3d9f81392687f93bd.plot Traceback (most recent call last):
File "chia\plotting\plot_tools.py", line 189, in process_file
ValueError: Invalid file E:\Plots3\plot-k32-2021-05-09-18-56-9cf6bd9e998f9c502f0a571be2aecd02f37f5a82dc8bb4e3d9f81392687f93bd.plot

[ZorgWbm]

Here is the plots check result :(

2021-05-11T11:36:35.651 chia.plotting.check_plots : INFO 13 plots of size 32
2021-05-11T11:36:35.651 chia.plotting.check_plots : WARNING 40 invalid plots found:
2021-05-11T11:36:35.651 chia.plotting.check_plots : WARNING E:\Plots\plot-k32-2021-05-06-05-13-d28f7a485d7076fdf138772b48bda5bcbfeaec932506f2f740f5f62e28370e3a.plot
2021-05-11T11:36:35.651 chia.plotting.check_plots : WARNING E:\Plots\plot-k32-2021-05-07-20-49-e09d2850be1695b6e186013e4e10928a1fedb1caa498a485c3216c5b83f00b99.plot

[lvcivs]

Sadly those plots are bad :(

Did you see any errors while plotting?

Do the final plots have the right size (ca. 101.3 GiB for a K32 plot)?

[ZorgWbm]

Yes the last plot size is 101.3 GB, I don't know the reason but maybe I don't use the multiple machines within the same final directory?

[BrandtH22]

If you are still experiencing the issues it is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of chia. Please download it from here: https://www.chia.net/downloads/

Since this issue has been open for a number of years without additional comments, we will be closing this ticket but if we have closed this ticket in error do not hesitate to reach out to us again with any followup questions, comments, or if the issue persists after an update.

Please note that upgrading major versions of chia generally requires the config.yaml to be recreated using these steps:
1. Stop chia
2. Rename the config or move it to a different directory
3. In CLI run chia init
4. Copy any custom settings from the old config to the new (plot drive directories, pool info, trusted node info, etc) - be careful here as yaml is very picky about formatting including those leading spaces
5. Start Chia

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