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Troubleshooting

ShieldCoin edited this page Jan 30, 2018 · 5 revisions

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Data-folder:

Your data folder depends on your platform and/or settings. Defaults are:

  • Windows: %appdata%/SHIELD
  • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/SHIELD
  • Linux: ~/.SHIELD

Config-file

This is always SHIELD.conf in your Data-folder if it doesn't exist you are free to make one (just make sure it's not SHIELD.conf.txt)

Syncing

Getting nodes

Add the contents of https://blockstats.pw/shield/addnode/ to Config-file in your Data-folder and restart the wallet

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping is a way to load the majority of blockchain without having to sync via nodes,
You can get bootstraps from https://github.com/ShieldCoin/SHIELD/releases/tag/blockchain You install them by extracting them to your Data-folder (having a clean datadir might help)

Stopped syncing

There is a small possibility that your wallet/node stops syncing at some point, this can be either because of the version of your wallet or that you are on the wrong chain

To resolve this:

  • Update to the latest wallet
  • Delete everything in Config-file except wallet.dat and SHIELD.conf
  • Restart the new wallet

Importing keys

Balance not showing up

Add rescan=1 to your Config-file in Data-folder, then restart the wallet it might take longer to load Now you should see the wallet balance correctly (You can remove rescan=1 from Config-file if wanted)

The 'Self-efficacy' way

If you want to find something out by yourself your best bet is checking the Data-folder for debug.log and seeing what the most recent events were, if you have worked with other coins before this might resolve the situation faster

TOR network

Mac

follow instructions for manual terminal commands, install TOR via Homebrew read TOR website: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-osx.html.en

Start TOR, type: brew services start tor > Switch off Stealth mode in Firewall settings during installation

Create a text file and save under shield.config in SHIELD app folder. Open in Data-folder Copy in TOR nodes into Config-file file read: https://github.com/ShieldCoin/SHIELD/wiki/Using-Tor-qt-nodes

the last step makes sure your settings in QT Wallet are correct under network tab > IP field type: LOCALHOST will give local IP address, Port 9050, SOCKSVersion: 5.

Not only your #SHIELDWallet is 100% anonymous, your Mac is now 100% TOR stealth!

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