HELP please

[Jbanna]

What is going on here? I have not opened bitcoin client since 10/16/11. Upon opening it yesterday I found that many dates that i received btc from deepbit were messed up. Also there is an error at the bottom, and no new confirmations are being made.



thanks

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[etotheipi]

What version of the client are you using?   Version 0.4.0 is the current version, and upgrading to that solved a lot of problems that I had with Bitcoin on linux.

Also, you could try starting the client with the "--rescan" command, which should throw out a bunch of its saved information and rescan the entire blockchain from disk.  I believe the client can sometimes get out of sync, and just needs a rescan to clear it up.  I don't know how to actually do this on a Mac... if you can open it from a command line, you only need to add "--rescan" to the end of the call.

[Jbanna]

hi,
thanks for the reply. I have version 0.4.0 and have tried the "--rescan" command, which didn't help. It displays the same error.

Something interesting though. I still have 0.3.23-beta, and when i open it, I receive the same error below, but all dates that i received BTC are correct.

[theymos]

Probably your block database is corrupted. Delete all files in your data directory except wallet.dat.

[Jbanna]

ok, yea it was my block database.. I deleted everyint (except wallet) and redownloaded. Worked like a charm 
what would cause the database to become corrupted?

[theymos]

ok, yea it was my block database.. I deleted everyint (except wallet) and redownloaded. Worked like a charm 
what would cause the database to become corrupted?

I think it usually happens when antivirus software messes with Bitcoin. It could also just be random disk corruption.