How to resync Geth after the Ethereum Hard Fork

in #ethereum8 years ago (edited)

Resync Geth

Updating Homebrew

  1. Open a Terminal window

  2. Type brew update

  3. Type brew upgrade

Resync Geth

  1. Open a Terminal window

  2. Type geth removedb to remove your chaindata.

  3. Type y to confirm removing your chaindata. This can take around 10 seconds.

  4. Type geth --fast --cache=1024 to start synchronising the chain. This can take around 2 hours depending on your computer.

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I am so over trying to sync my mist wallet. I have tried to do a total download 3. Times over the past week and it slows to a crawl once it's near the end.

Tell me about it! I've been having trouble syncing for nearly 3 weeks now! I originally used Geth before the attacks started, and after some research I started using Parity and had some success. Since then I have also been trying to sync Geth, and today I was able to do that with the above instructions. There is still another hard fork coming that will get rid of a lot of bloat from the chain, so once that happens then the above instructions should help you out also. Good luck.