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Importing the Blockchain to Monero GUI wallet (Windows)

Step 1

Download the Current bootstrap from https://downloads.getmonero.org/blockchain.raw; you can skip this step if you are importing the Blockchain from another source.

Step 2

Find the path of your Monero wallet (the folder where you extracted your wallet). For example mine is:

D:\monero-gui-0.10.3.1

Your path may be different depending on where you decided to download your wallet and what version of the Monero wallet you have.

Step 3

Find the path of your downloaded Blockchain for example mine was:

C:\Users\KeeJef\Downloads\blockchain.raw

Yours might be different depending on where you downloaded the Blockchain to.

Step 4

Open a Command Prompt window. You can do this by pressing the Windows key + R, and then typing in the popup box CMD

Step 5

Now you need to navigate using the CMD window to the path of your Monero wallet. You can do this by typing:

cd C:\YOUR\MONERO\WALLET\FILE\PATH\HERE

It should look something like:

cd D:\monero-gui-0.10.3.1

If your Monero wallet is on another drive you can use DriveLetter: for example if your Monero wallet was on your D drive then before using the cd command you would do D:

Step 6