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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: Duckie on November 19, 2013, 07:35:17 PM



Title: Wallet.dat corrupted
Post by: Duckie on November 19, 2013, 07:35:17 PM
Was a brand new address transfer some bitcoins in it and the next day I got a message while trying to open it "wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed" I've tried using pywallet and it just tells me "couldn't open wallet.dat/main. try quitting bitcoin and running this again." Tried restarting.


Title: Re: Wallet.dat corrupted
Post by: jubalix on November 21, 2013, 08:45:36 AM
good practice is to use pywallet and extract all private keys before placing anything in the wallet addresses.....regualr updates for change addresses