While the data in background is not fully loaded, bitcoin-qt will display a balance of 0 BTC 0 unconfirmed and 0 transactions. this makes me very nervous since i interpret this as: my wallet has been emptied and i have lost all data. after about 1 minute the correct balance is displayed and the UI becomes responsive.
Misleading display of bitcoins at startup #1656
issue apetersson opened this issue on August 6, 2012-
apetersson commented at 3:22 PM on August 6, 2012: none
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Diapolo commented at 5:48 PM on August 6, 2012: none
This is intended, as there is no current data available. Not a bug or issue IMHO.
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apetersson commented at 6:00 PM on August 6, 2012: none
my point is that it should not display the number "0" but keep the field blank until a value is available.
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laanwj commented at 6:01 PM on August 6, 2012: member
To be honest, I've never experienced a delay before the numbers are filled in. The main window is only shown when the complete client is started up and the balance is available.
Or do you mean during the initial block chain sync after removing the block files? In that case, it is intended, as blocks after the current one are non-existent as far as the client is concerned. We've added (out of sync) to the concerned fields (I think this will be first in release 0.7.0).
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apetersson commented at 6:11 PM on August 6, 2012: none
not, this is not the initial blockchain download. apparently sometimes the UI is displayed also when the data is not fully loaded. this might be a seperate issue. when trying to reproduce (three times) it it never occured, the UI correctly displayed itself with the correct data.
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Diapolo commented at 9:15 PM on August 13, 2012: none
@apetersson I don't think this is worth to be open as issue, as we have the mentioned "out of sync" display in 0.7 and the 0 display are the UI default values. Are you fine with closing this?
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apetersson commented at 8:55 AM on August 18, 2012: none
yes, i'll have a look at 0.7 as soon as first builds come out
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laanwj commented at 9:07 AM on August 18, 2012: member
Just grab one of BlueMatt's auto-builds... for example http://jenkins.bluematt.me/pull-tester/bcfdeb63b74bb899c6b78add6e47a5eb4c33bc02
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apetersson commented at 11:59 AM on September 18, 2012: none
tried to reproduce it with 0.7 and at least there is now a glowing red warning when it is not synched. i consider this issue closed, because it should be clear for a user that this is not the final balance..
- apetersson closed this on Sep 18, 2012
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apetersson commented at 12:00 PM on September 18, 2012: none
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