diff --git a/app/controllers/socket.js b/app/controllers/socket.js
index 825713b3..9a11f5b5 100644
--- a/app/controllers/socket.js
+++ b/app/controllers/socket.js
@@ -17,16 +17,21 @@ module.exports.init = function(app, io_ext) {
 
 module.exports.broadcastTx = function(tx) {
   if (ios) {
-    var t = {};
+    var t;
     if (typeof tx === 'string') {
       t = {
         txid: tx
       };
-    } else {
-      t = tx;
+    } 
+    
+    else {
+      t = {
+        txid: tx.txid,
+        size: tx.size,
+      };
       // Outputs
       var valueOut = 0;
-      t.vout.forEach(function(o) {
+      tx.vout.forEach(function(o) {
         valueOut += o.value * util.COIN;
       });
 
diff --git a/insight.js b/insight.js
index 0cf64a02..d4c2891d 100644
--- a/insight.js
+++ b/insight.js
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ if (!config.disableP2pSync) {
 /**
  * historic_sync process
  */
-var historicSync = new HistoricSync({ shouldBroadcastSync: true });
+var historicSync = new HistoricSync({
+  shouldBroadcastSync: true
+});
 peerSync.historicSync = historicSync;
 
 if (!config.disableHistoricSync) {
diff --git a/lib/HistoricSync.js b/lib/HistoricSync.js
index 27383def..f29e77bc 100644
--- a/lib/HistoricSync.js
+++ b/lib/HistoricSync.js
@@ -264,7 +264,12 @@ function spec() {
       self.connectedCountDB > self.blockChainHeight * 0.9) return next();
 
 
+    try {
     self.blockExtractor = new BlockExtractor(config.bitcoind.dataDir, config.network);
+    } catch (e) {
+      p(e.message + '. Disabling file sync.');
+      return next();
+    }
 
     self.getFn = self.getBlockFromFile;
     self.allowReorgs = true;
@@ -407,6 +412,7 @@ function spec() {
             else {
               self.endTs = Date.now();
               self.status = 'finished';
+              console.log('Done Syncing', self.info());
               return w_cb(err);
             }
           });
diff --git a/util/sync.js b/util/sync.js
index 05087ba3..ee29e65a 100755
--- a/util/sync.js
+++ b/util/sync.js
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ program
   .option('-v --verbose', 'Verbose 0/1', 0)
   .parse(process.argv);
 
-var historicSync = new HistoricSync();
+var historicSync = new HistoricSync({
+  shouldBroadcastSync: true,
+});
 
 
 async.series([