Wallet sync restarts from block 0 after closing and launch

Question

I downloaded the Ethereum-wallet for OSX and started the sync. It took like 10 hours to sync more than 1M blocks.

I closed the wallet and restarted today, but I was surprised to see that the sync is starting from block 0.

Is it normal that the sync restart from 0 after closing the wallet? If not, any thoughts on why this happened?

@Nikhil M. du -hs ./ethereum/chaindata currently gives me the output of '13G chaindata/'. You may have included the DAG and other files in your 25Gb total. — BokkyPooBah, Apr 05 '16 at 04:34
@BokkyPooBah on a fast sync the size is even smaller mine is 4.2G and is fully synced. — niksmac, Apr 17 '16 at 15:08
@Nikhil M I suspect that this is because only the receipts from the transactions and the resulting state changes get download and not the transactions. — BokkyPooBah, Apr 17 '16 at 15:56

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 13:01

I suspect that you terminate Ethereum Wallet before the --fast syncing completed.

From the code in mist/modules/ethereumNodes.js lines 175-183, Ethereum Wallet will try to --fast sync the blockchain.

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