Daedalus isn't opening - "Connecting to Network..." for hours

[andsav]

This has happened after I tried restoring wallet from the 12 word backup (just to test the functionality). The application froze and I restarted it. Now it has been stuck in the “Connecting to network…” stage. There isn’t any issue with my network and Daedelus works perfectly fine on another computer.

How could I access the logs? Maybe I could figure out what is going on.

[VDVinh]

I hope this one can help https://daedaluswallet.io/faq/

[andsav]

Thanks, I couldn’t figure out what went wrong from the logs. I sent a report

[SLewis]

This is my post. Please let me know if this works.

VPN solved my wallet issues!

VPN worked for me. I’m connecting every time when using a VPN. This is the process I used on a Windows 10 Pro PC. I hope this works for you. My 3 step fix. From the Daedalus Wallet Site FAQ I am stuck at the loading screen, it says “Syncing blocks” at X.X%. What should I do? Please note that blocks are synced in steps, each of which might take up to a minute. If Daedalus is stuck at X.XX% value for several minutes, please check your internet connection and try to restart Daedalus. If the …

[andsav]

I solved this by removing the DB-1.0 directory from %appdata%/Daedalus/ and resyncing the blocks.

[RobJF]

@andsav

I solved this by removing the DB-1.0 directory from %appdata%/Daedalus/ and resyncing the blocks.

This is interesting – well, to me anyway. I had a very similar error message several times in succession trying to start the ZENCash Swing Desktop Wallet so I googled it and it turns out it’s a known issue and the solution is to resync the blocks! (Which takes even longer, quite a lot longer, than for Daedalus.)