I can see my balance in https://www.etherchain.org/ , but "0 ether" in the console?

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• o0ragman0o Member, Moderator Posts: 1,291 mod

  May 2016

  You will need to synchronize. geth has a --fast switch that will sync it in a few hours but only works if chaindata is empty. You can simply rename chaindata to something else and reinstate later if the --fast attempt fails (which I never heard happen).

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• themaster2016 Member Posts: 20 ✭

  May 2016

  I've set up another PC and geth account and had a similar problem when trying to make a transaction.
  
  On my other PC I sent a transaction fine without first needing to unlock my account. However, i decided to do a small transaction from my new installation using the same command but it said my account was locked.
  
  I did manage to send the transaction but I had to unlock the account first which I didn't have to do on the other PC.
  
  I suspect your problem here is that you just haven't sync'd enough of the blockchain to register your account credit locally.
  
  Speaking of locked accounts I assume if you do unlock your account it will then lock again after you exit the console?

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• o0ragman0o Member, Moderator Posts: 1,291 mod

  May 2016

  Accounts unlock only for a few seconds, not sure the exact figure but with Mist I think's it's only 2 seconds.

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• kether Member Posts: 12 ✭

  May 2016

  I will try. Started before my 1st post, deleted the blockchain and started geth with "geth --fast" and when it is done i will try to do the transaction again , and write back how it goes.
  Thanks

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• kether Member Posts: 12 ✭

  May 2016

  Ok , so i synchronized and it worked, thanks a lot!

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