The database folder should disappear after you shut down Bitcoin Core. That is expected behavior. What is not expected is clearing the debug.log. I don't know of anything that would cause the debug.log to be cleared on startup.
Okay, I will surely restart everything again to see if this behavior is consistent.
It should only be reindexing and warning you that it is reindexing.
Yes, this happened when the database got corrupted upon the false postivie detection, it asked me and I said ok and it clearly displayed something like (Re)building index and after that started syncing.
That it does reindex when you don't exit Bitcoin Core improperly is not surprising, although this behavior should have already been fixed.
I would've loved it to rebuild the index
, however it just started syncing from scratch (this happened twice).Moreover, the last time the resyncing happened, blk files were already present ...
Next time that happens, watch your network traffic. If you look at the task manager, there should be something there to watch your network traffic. You can also go to the debug window and there is a tab for Network Traffic. If you actually are resynching, you should see that that you are suddenly receiving a ton of data and that there is a lot of network traffic. If you are not, then you are reindexing instead of resynching.I will actually be more vigilant for this not to happen again
. Too much wasted time. If this happens again (I think I can make it happen, actually I don't know if it's better to try to reproduce it and report an issue ...), I'll check the traffic, yet I expect it to tell me what it's doing as it did before.Thank you very much.
