I got an invalid symlink at first.
'was sleepy and decided to run bitcoind.
Obvious error that there was not bitcoin.conf, copy pasted the file.
then really didn't wish to copy the 17Go on my crappy computer.
So I renamed ~/.bitcoin in .bitcoin_newuseless
And then firgured out what went wrong with my symlink. (wrong path)
Now the symlink looks absolutely fine.
It links a dot.bitcoin278606 folder on an extHD.
'made sure the bitcoin.conf inside was editted with txindex=1
bitcoind -reindex
and now I'm at block ~12400...
I have a backup of dot.bitcoin278606 on another extHD if it can help.
So I could be back synced up 278606 pretty easilly, but without txindex.
Is that absolutely necessary? edit: yeah, 'outta gum

laugh so 5sec sleep addict
I think I read burning BTC to get XCP was possible even if bitcoind wasn't sync?! is it? (edit: nope)
The rescan is really painfully slow.
I expected it, but not to this point. Can't skip the -reindex I guess? (edit: nope)
edit 40min later: well, 'block 28k. That's 10%. So the rescan should be done by 12h from now.
Can a given address hold multiple counterparty assets?
Sure, that's the point.