@gpedro

Hey, I waited a while to really see what was happening... So i tried the manual method isn't working, but that is more of an operator headspace issue. I can not for the life of me get the cd command to get the directory set to my external drive. I was able to launch the file on the drive, however it plotted to the location that I can't seem to get the command line out of. I even googled it and exhausted all methods I could find and this is strange because I know the syntax is correct, I use cli on cisco routers switches and firewalls all the time. In any case I started to use the GUI plotter again just to see how it runs and provide more specific observations for you now that I have a much better understanding of whats going on. It has been 2 days and it seems to be working fine. I did notice 1 strange thing though. When I wake up in the morning the status is about 5% further than before I went to sleep and the task manager shows the process only using memory as if the process ran out of memory and stopped. However if i right click anywhere in the wplpotgenerator window, suddenly the processor will jump back to 90 something % and the process continues as if it was never froozen. This may not be great, but it is working for me so I'll take slow over nothing any day :) In any case, Ill let you know when i complete this drive.

@gpedro

Awesome, Thanks again... It is still plotting, it seems to be held up at 19% for about a day now. Is this normal to be stuck like this?

@gpedro

Hey, sorry for taking so long to answer this... The issue ended up being completely different. I was also running a server for a video game and I guess they shared a port number or something like that. In any case, the default GUI plotter is working again, only now I can't seem to get it to finish plotting, even if i set it to 250 gigs at a time. If I do the full amount of space available it never makes it past 0%, If I set it to 250 Gigs it hangs up at about 50%. I am thinking this might be caused do to a lack of memory as you discussed above with the manual plotting. I am doing the method you described above and will let you know if it resolved it. I somewhat like the command line a bit more than the gui, If you get a second would you tell me how to choose the nonce range and the stagger size? Could you break down what these are so I actually understand them?

Thanks again!

@gpedro

ok, completly closed out and tried several times over several days, even did uninstalls and reinstalls with reboots... No luck...

I am looking for 1861 gb, 10gigs of ram free, 4 threads

Thanks Again!

@gpedro
no, im still trying to use the client built in to the wallet. is there a different tool i could try? I liked the built in one because its essentially a gui.

@gpedro

I didn't know that, it always took the regular burst id before. In any case I just tried it with the numeric id and got the same error messages. When I say Ive plotted before I simply mean Ive used the gui in the wallet plotted drives and mined them for a few days, I am by no means an expert. :)

Hello,

I have mined burst before, but I am suddenly having a problem. I need to plot a new drive, and it dosn't start.

After selecting the drive, size and # of cores i want to use, i get this error message.

Error #1 - "Not able to translate Burst ID are you offline?"
Error #2 - "Your Burst Account is not activated, mistyped or does not exist.

Now at first i thought i simply mistyped it. I am copying this directly from the wallet using copid id to clipboard. It is the correct ID and from my laptop which i move way to often to plot this hardrive with I can plot for this account.

Burst Account - BURST-42BM-6DPA-63MX-A5RU8

Also, yes this computer does have an active internet computer and I can see the outside world.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Thank you!