Hi,
1. A couple of years ago I had a wallet with a few BTC (left) in it; I quit the bitcoin environemt after I fell in the LTC gear scam. The wallet was working perfectly, i believe it was version 0.9.1 then.
2. Lately I decided to get back in crypto (essentially driven by the Etherum concept), i downloaded Bitcoin Core wallet 0.14.2 and got it to install on a dedicated hard disk by itself (as I knew the size of the block chain will be considerable, 132GB).
3. After I installed Bitcoin Core wallet, and before starting it, i did the following:
3.1. I went into the .conf file and put a password
3.2. I coped my safely stored wallet.dat file in the folder.
4. Bitcoin Core started downloading the block chain; the process took 3 full days. However, during the download process my PC went to sleep and would not return from sleep so I had to force shutdown. No symptoms appeared as the download of the block chain continued.
5. Once the download of the block chain was 100% compelted, I got an error stating that the program cannot read from the database, and that I should shutdown and contact support.
I tried to download and tun PYwallet but I read that there is a for somewhere that sends the privaste keys to a bieber.x host, so I did not run nor use PYwallet and decided to come here and ask for your help what can I do to get the wallet running correctly as I don't mind running a full Bitcoin Core wallet to help the network a bit if it does.
Alternatively, would the same wallet.dat work with a lighter version of the wallet?
If you want a lighter wallet, I'd suggest electrum.org. However, you'd have to import private keys which is costly in transaction fees (but not too costly if you have more than ~0.01
BTC and few input transactions).