bitcoin wallet corrupt.

[julio77]

Hello everyone.

After searching a few days in google and of course, in the forum, I could not open an old wallet with a few bitcoins inside.

Long ago you kick-bitcoint backup with qt but now when I try to replace the file wallet.dat, trying to open the bitcoin-qt appears a message saying the file is corrupt. also try to open it with Rescan nor.

I tried to open the file to dump the keys with pywallet.py shows me an error page.

any idea what else could do about it to save my bitcoins?.

[byt411]

If you file is CORRUPT, then you can do nothing. Unless you have the private key written down somewhere, it's impossible to get your coins back.
Check if you have other copies of your wallet.dat that work.

[julio77]

hello byt411.
Thank you very much for responding.

I currently have several wallet.dat but all they say is corrupt.
I guess when you say private key, you mean to put a password to the file?
if so, if I have it. but what else to do.

[byt411]

hello byt411.
Thank you very much for responding.

I currently have several wallet.dat but all they say is corrupt.
I guess when you say private key, you mean to put a password to the file?
if so, if I have it. but what else to do.

The private key is not put a password to the file.
A private key is the key to be able to spend the coins in your address, which is contained in that file. Maybe you could've written it down.

[julio77]

This private key can not get the file wallet.dat have at the moment?

[01BTC10]

Try

Code:

bitcoin-qt -salvagewallet

[julio77]

opens at the beginning and loading ... and then closes itself. this is the log



2014-03-12 18:06:27 Bitcoin version v0.8.6-beta (2013-12-05 13:11:26 +0100)
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Using OpenSSL version OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Default data directory C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Using data directory C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Using at most 125 connections (2048 file descriptors available)
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Using 6 threads for script verification
2014-03-12 18:06:27 init message: Verificando monedero...
2014-03-12 18:06:27 dbenv.open LogDir=C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\database ErrorFile=C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\db.log
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Failed to rename wallet.dat to wallet.1394647587.bak
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Shutdown : In progress...
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Flush(false)
2014-03-12 18:06:27 DBFlush(false) ended               0ms
2014-03-12 18:06:27 StopNode()
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Flushed 0 addresses to peers.dat  50ms
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Flush(true)
2014-03-12 18:06:27 DBFlush(true) ended               1ms
2014-03-12 18:06:27 Shutdown : done