The following will guide you through the procedure of running a fast sync via geth --fast on Windows OS 10 for Mist for those running their Ethereum Wallet client for the first time.
Note:--fast can only be run if you are syncing your blockchain from scratch and only the first time you download the blockchain for security reasons.
Step 1: Open command prompt (Not Administrative privileges not required):
Step 2: Go the file directory for geth which looks like following on Windows OS: ~\Ethereum-Wallet-win64-0-7-4\resources\node\geth
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Step 3: You would see the following below if you did it properly: path to the geth file in your command prompt window
edit geth.exe to geth --fast as seen in (a) below.
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Step 4:Click Enter and you should observe the following below if successful :
You would begin to see the following set of data as the geth starts up and starts downloading the blockchain(syncing).
as the node begins to download the blockchain data;
You can allow it to run till it has download the lastest block in the blockchain has been fully downloaded, point at which you would see ethereum start-up splash page below progress bar become completely filled up.
Step 5: Once all the blocks have been successfully downloaded you can close your command prompt window.
Error:
- Network Time error: if you see the following as shown in the picture below while geth is running:
Solution:
- Right click time (a) at the bottom right of the your screen as shown in picture below:
- Select Adjust date/time and click Additional date, time & regional settings (a) in picture below located near the bottom right of your page.
- Click set date and time(a) as shown in picture below:
- Click Internet Time (a) and Change settings (b):
- Click synchronize with internet server time(a), select time.windows.com as your server, click update(b) and press OK.(c)
This should fix network time error.
- Right click time (a) at the bottom right of the your screen as shown in picture below: