This should be easy enough to fix... it sounds like you didn't update your Darkcoin client and now you've lost sync with the network and can't catch up. You're probably also running on a bad fork of the block chain. This would explain why you never see coins appear in your wallet or receive transactions from your mining pool payouts.
First thing you need to do is ensure you're running the latest version of Darkcoin-qt. You can check which version you're running by going to the top menu-bar in your client window and clicking
Help >> About Darkcoin. This will bring up the "About Box" for your Darkcoin-qt client. The very first thing you should see in this window is your client version number. Mine says this:
DarkCoin version v0.10.11.4-unk-beta
If you're running anything other than v0.9.11.5 or v0.10.11.5 then your Darkcoin client is out-of-date and you need to download the new client version from the official Darkcoin website (
www.darkcoin.io). You can see
my thread here about updating your client and download the correct version directly from my download links.
Once you've made sure you've got the correct client version, let's fix your problem. The problem is most likely, as I said, that your client is running on a "bad fork" of the Darkcoin block chain. This means that your local copy of the block-chain on your PC is probably corrupted/invalid. To fix this, we're going to totally wipe the slate clean and re-sync with the network. Please follow these steps:
1) Navigate to your Darkcoin data directory. By default (for Windows) this directory can be found in your
AppData folder in the
Roaming directory. On my PC, for example, the path is as follows:
C:\Users\DRKLord\AppData\Roaming\DarkCoin
You can easily find your directory by opening a fresh Windows Explorer window and typing this into the address bar and pressing the
Enter key:
%AppData%\Darkcoin
2) Now that you've found your Darkcoin data directory, let's make a back-up copy of it just to be on the safe side. Copy either the entire AppData\Darkcoin folder or copy everything inside of it and paste it to a safe and easily accessible location in your file system. For example, make a new folder on your Desktop named "Darkcoin Data Backup" and paste the copy there for safe-keeping.
NOTE: It's also a good idea, at this point, to make an extra back-up of your wallet file. Copy your wallet.dat file (found in your data directory) onto a spare USB flash drive and save another copy in a safe place on your hard-drive where you can find it in the future if you ever need it.
3) Now that we've got a back-up of our entire data directory and your wallet file, proceed by deleting
all of the contents of your AppData\Darkcoin directory except for the
wallet.dat file. Yes, everything, except your wallet.
4) After deleting all of the contents of the data directory, leaving only the
wallet.dat file, you should now launch your Darkcoin-qt client.
5) Your client should launch, connect to the network and begin the process of downloading the
correct version of the blockchain and resynchronizing with the rest of the network. This may take several hours or more, so be patient.
6) Once you've done all of this, report back here and let me know how it went!
Good luck!
The DRK Lord
