Lost Bitcoins

dank (OP)

Legendary

Offline

Activity: 1134
Merit: 1002

You cannot kill love

Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 12:45:19 AM

#1

I encrypted my wallet.dat file in a 7-zip archive and deleted the original file. My computer restarted and now my bitcoin client displays no previous transactions or my bitcoins. Is this normal or did I do something wrong? How can I get my bitcoins back?

Bitcoin keeps giving me this error: EXCEPTION: 11DbException/n Db::put: Not enough space/n C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in ProcessManage()

13oZY8zzWEp48XZpEEi8zSkYJF5AWR2vXc DMhYmNzMnU2Avgu7sF3GSDybHumj8XH8V8
Currently seeking plot of land to host 1,000,000+ person music festival
Dankmusic - Hear the impossible, feel the impossible, be the impossible dankmusic.org dankcoin.org

tymothy

Full Member

Offline

Activity: 224
Merit: 100

Re: Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 12:46:43 AM

#2

Quote from: dank on June 19, 2011, 12:45:19 AM

I encrypted my wallet.dat file in a 7-zip archive and deleted the original file. My computer restarted and now my bitcoin client displays no previous transactions or my bitcoins. Is this normal or did I do something wrong? How can I get my bitcoins back?

Decrypt the wallet.dat file. If it's not in the client folder, the client just creates a new blank wallet. Your coins should be fine.

imperi

Full Member

Offline

Activity: 196
Merit: 101

Re: Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 12:47:18 AM

#3

I think probably you need to take a keyboarding class.

dank (OP)

Legendary

Offline

Activity: 1134
Merit: 1002

You cannot kill love

Re: Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 12:52:47 AM

#4

Quote from: tymothy on June 19, 2011, 12:46:43 AM

Quote from: dank on June 19, 2011, 12:45:19 AM

I encrypted my wallet.dat file in a 7-zip archive and deleted the original file. My computer restarted and now my bitcoin client displays no previous transactions or my bitcoins. Is this normal or did I do something wrong? How can I get my bitcoins back?

Decrypt the wallet.dat file. If it's not in the client folder, the client just creates a new blank wallet. Your coins should be fine.

Thanks, I wasn't sure if it worked like that or not. /thread.

13oZY8zzWEp48XZpEEi8zSkYJF5AWR2vXc DMhYmNzMnU2Avgu7sF3GSDybHumj8XH8V8
Currently seeking plot of land to host 1,000,000+ person music festival
Dankmusic - Hear the impossible, feel the impossible, be the impossible dankmusic.org dankcoin.org

NO_SLAVE

Newbie

Offline

Activity: 56
Merit: 0

Re: Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 12:56:34 AM

#5

did you really believe the client would read an encrypted file???

wow, the BTC technical difficulties are just getting started. Roll Eyes

SeriousWorm

Newbie

Offline

Activity: 54
Merit: 0

Re: Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 02:44:53 AM

#6

So you deleted your wallet.dat and are now wondering why doesn't your bitcoin client work as it should?

If you take the power cable out of your computer, I guess you expect it to work normally, as well? Cheesy

Although, I agree that the exception reported is very stupid, it shouldn't be "cannot write to wallet because of not enough space" (which the above message says), but "wallet file missing" (or something similar).

hugolp

Legendary

Offline

Activity: 1148
Merit: 1001

Radix-The Decentralized Finance Protocol

Re: Lost Bitcoins

June 19, 2011, 06:31:48 AM

#7

Quote from: Holliday on June 19, 2011, 03:21:13 AM

Quote from: NO_SLAVE on June 19, 2011, 12:56:34 AM

did you really believe the client would read an encrypted file???

wow, the BTC technical difficulties are just getting started. Roll Eyes

Just because someone tries to drive a car by sitting in the trunk doesn't mean the car is faulty. Grin

But it means the car designers and car marketing guys have a hell of a task in front of them.

▄████████▄ ██▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ██▀ ███ ▄▄▄▄▄ ███ ██████ ███ ▀██▄ ▄██ ▀██▄▄██▀ ████▀ ▀█▀

The Radix DeFi Protocol is
R A D I X

███████████████████████████████████

The Decentralized

Finance Protocol

Scalable

▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████████████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██ ██ ██▀▀▀▀██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███████████████████████