First post for a newbie, need to stop lurking.

[cyberwarrior]

So I have been lurking for a while now and want to come out of the shadows.

 So I have questions and hope someone can help, I'm using Bitcoin-Qt for my wallet and curious thing in that after I get the full blockchain downloaded and it says that I'm up to date, two days later I try to open my wallet and I get a corrupt database message and it wants to download the blockchain all over again.  Fortunately I made a backup and just did a restore but its not the first time this has happened to me, can someone clue in a newbie as to why this is happening.

Thanks!

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[cyberwarrior]

Thanks I will have to check them out.

[Anon135246]

Welcome to the forums, also a very happy inputs.io user

[xypos]

Welcome.

You can also use blockchain.info with 2FA and you should not have any problems (to get hacked, or the hassle to download the whole chain).

[marcovaldo]

Welcome on board

[pacojones]

I've been using blockchain.info and armory for a while with NO issues - love them both - but to answer your question please provide some details about your operating system, antivirus, etc.  It's hard to troubleshoot a software corruption issue without these details.

[Open4lies]

How often and many times it happened?
For a start do full scandisk of your HDD, including sectors. You may also check S.M.A.R.T. values from your HDD

[cyberwarrior]

Thank you for all your help I decided to go with blockchain.info, fortunately I only had 1 bitcoin so I transferred it over and it was very easy.

Open4lies, I will do a full scandisk of my hard drive and see what that tells me, thanks

pacojones, I am using Win7 64 bit with Windows Security Essentials.  I am going to check the hard drive and do a scandisk and I usually like to wipe my hard drive once a year I think I will do that today it's been a while, I know you guys may think I am crazy but it's something to do.

[Argwai96]

i am still too much of a newb to understand the qt client very well, im just using blockchain online wallet right now myself 

[b!z]

Thank you for all your help I decided to go with blockchain.info, fortunately I only had 1 bitcoin so I transferred it over and it was very easy.

Open4lies, I will do a full scandisk of my hard drive and see what that tells me, thanks

pacojones, I am using Win7 64 bit with Windows Security Essentials.  I am going to check the hard drive and do a scandisk and I usually like to wipe my hard drive once a year I think I will do that today it's been a while, I know you guys may think I am crazy but it's something to do.

make sure to use 2FA on your blockchain.info wallet.

[nahtnam]

Welcome to the forums! Sorry in don't know the answer to your question

[tautvilis]

First, Hi and welcome
Second, maybe use inputs.io for starting, for more btc use blockchain.info or coinbase.com

[uk1]

welcome to the forum

[b!z]

First, Hi and welcome
Second, maybe use inputs.io for starting, for more btc use blockchain.info or coinbase.com

Or even better, use an offline wallet.