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I have downloaded the whole blockchain, but I was curious about the working environment after enabling txindex=1 and calling the -reindex command.

Now that I decided not to reindex the blockchain (didn't want to develop anything extreme and to wait that long), I disabled txindex=0 and bitcoind is downloading again all the blockchain!

Is there a shortcut to avoid it?

*I think the debug.log file is growing twice the initial size also the debug.log file is getting bigger

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  • Thanks. Now it's finished. This process took me about the 1/3rd of the blockchain download time.
    – chdimosthenis
    Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 13:53

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When enabling or disabling txindex the blocks you already have are used, they are not re-downloaded. There is no shortcut, once you start you have to wait for it to finish. The process of re-indexing throws out the state you already have and rebuilds it completely from the block files where possible.

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