Hi. I'm hoping someone can help me. I finally attempted to set up my own wallet with Monero GUI. I had set it to run a local node. It seemed like everything was going fine but the syncing seemed to freeze after a few hours. I decided to restart it by closing the node/wallet, deleting the database file and restarting. Again, it seemed to work at

first and then froze. I have let it sit for 2 days and the remaining blocks have only increased. This is on Windows over VPN saved to an SSD. What do I need to do to get the wallet synced?

What version of monero wallet gui are you using? How much spare disk space do to have? Anything in the info / log file?

I know the version for certain, but it should be the most recent (18 something). I have over 150gb available on the SSD and the DB only got up to 50-60gb. There's a lot of info on the logs but I don't know what to make of it.

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> Paste them (logs) into www.zerobin.net

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> A lot of this is due to the wallet trying to connect to a blockchain that is not synced

This other log was too big so I just copied from the last few synced items.

Try to run monerod binary without the gui open and adjust log-level accordingly to see why its crashing

So how do I sync a wallet that's not synced? What am I doing wrong on my end?

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> Its possible that

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> - this is an issue with windows using compression on the folder containing the database

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> - youve run out of storage

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> The errors here look like a corrupted blockchain

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> Try to disable compression on the blockchain folder and try to sync again

Do you know how much space I'll ultimately need? This is being saved on a secondary drive but I could use my C drive which has over 500gb left if that might be more likely to work.

Also, since I'm up against my data cap until the 1st. Would I be able to copy the current database file and continue with that or do I need to start from scratch again (assuming it's just a compression/drive issue)?

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> need? 95gb. Ideally at least 2x that for long term

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> This is assuming that youre using GUI's default (which is to prune the blockchain)

<o​frnxmr:xmr.mx> If you dont prune, minimum ~220gb

Yeah, pretty sure I'm going pruned. So I should have enough space on the current drive but I'll check to see if Windows is suppressing it then.