I took a shot at fixing this myself and tried a couple of things and it worked! I wanted to post the information up here in case anyone else had the same issue. What I did was delete all the .dat files under the block folder (in c:/users/*****/app data/roaming/feathercoin). I restarted the program and it started synching again, but I received some errors along the way. I realized that I didn’t have my wallet encrypted so I did that and restarted. Then it worked perfectly. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone having the same issue.

Hi everyone! I am very new to feathercoin mining (and cryptocurrencies in general). I have been mining for the past couple of weeks and everything has been great. I recently tried to open my feathercoin wallet (version 0.8.5) and I received this error (I’m on windows 7 64 bit):

“Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?”

I tried uninstalling the wallet program and reinstalling it, but I still get the same error. I’m not quite sure what to do. I did backup my wallet dat file earlier but my most recent mining dump didn’t make it I don’t think. So that is probably lost.

If anyone could provide any help I would greatly appreciate it. I’m new to all of this so I hope my lack of knowledge won’t be exasperating. Thanks!

My situation is a little bit strange actually. I’m a classically trained artist and, through demand, people all over the world want to learn the same techniques. So I started a website teaching individuals what I learned.

http://www.classicalartonline.com

I have people paying to study with me, via paypal, from all over the world (India, Hungary, France, etc…). So if I could offer them like this it would make the transfer process a million times easier as well as eliminating the fees I get with paypal too. Seems like a win win. I think I will start with the marketplace first though as you said and just get used to things. I certainly don’t want to have a wallet full of feathercoins go poof because I do something dumb haha.

Thanks so much I’m glad to be here. Thanks so much for the help and the extra information. I am self employed and I want to work out the kinks so I can accept feathercoin as payment. Thankfully I did save a backup, but I’m not sure I exported my keys. I would lose about 25 coins in total so it wouldn’t be horrible to get it back again. I’ll post it up in the support thread and see if I can get it fixed. Thanks!

Hi Everyone,
Glad to meet you guys. I’m new to the world of feathercoin (or any cryptocurrencies), but I was really intrigued by the concept when I found out about it. I have been mining feathercoin for the past couple of weeks and it has been going great. Today I received this error though (when my wallet tried to sync):

Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?

I haven’t changed anything as far as I know, but after uninstalling and restarting the program (also restarting the computer) I am still getting the same problem. I had to follow a guide to start mining and to set everything up so I’m not equipped to deal with any technical issues. I know this probably belongs in the technical support area, but I did want to abide by the “noobs start here” rule ;).

If anyone can point me in the right direction that would help a ton. Thanks so mcuh