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Hoping someone can help me with this. I have monero in my gui wallet on my desktop. However the wallet is a few thousand blocks behind and hasnt moved in days.. How can I access my funds??

You probably need to update your GUI wallet to the Beta 2 version:
https://getmonero.org/2017/03/29/monero-gui-beta-2-released.html

Make sure you run version 0.10.3.1 of the daemon:
https://getmonero.org/downloads/

You could use an open node (it is however advised to run your own):
https://moneroworld.com/#nodes

you should try to mine with a software, I've using it now and its great. Im mining monero thru the use of my computer's cpu, although it is a little bit slower than others but still i can mine the coins that I wanted, sometimes Im using both my cpu and my gpu and its great because the amount of hashrate is very big therefore it easy to mine with a program.

Wallet-cli seems to be running. I have logged in with my wallet name and password and it shows my balance. Can anyone tell me what syntax to use to send funds to poloniex using an address and id? I have tried

transfer <address> amount <id>

to no avail because it says Error: payment id has invalid format, expected 16 or 64 character hex string

Owlcatz the syntax is correct. I am not sure that monerod is working properly.

This is the monerod log:

2017-04-25 16:13:12.116      INFO    global   contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145   New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO
2017-04-25 16:13:12.116      INFO    global   src/daemon/main.cpp:282   Monero 'Wolfram Warptangent' (v0.10.3.1-release)
2017-04-25 16:13:12.117      INFO    global   src/daemon/protocol.h:55   Initializing cryptonote protocol...
2017-04-25 16:13:12.117      INFO    global   src/daemon/protocol.h:60   Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
2017-04-25 16:13:12.117      INFO    global   src/daemon/p2p.h:63   Initializing p2p server...
2017-04-25 16:13:32.121      INFO    global   src/daemon/core.h:89   Deinitializing core...
2017-04-25 16:13:32.122      ERROR   daemon   src/daemon/core.h:94   Failed to deinitialize core...
2017-04-25 16:13:32.122      INFO    global   src/daemon/protocol.h:77   Stopping cryptonote protocol...
2017-04-25 16:13:32.122      INFO    global   src/daemon/protocol.h:81   Cryptonote protocol stopped successfully
2017-04-25 16:13:32.122      ERROR   daemon   src/daemon/main.cpp:290   Exception in main! Failed to initialize p2p server.
logout

[Process completed]

I havent tried deleting and resyncing. Do I just delete... what files? Not sure where they are..

And what an inane post at that! Padding his sig campaign.