Did I just lose $200 worth of BTC? - page 2.

Fiyasko

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Okey Dokey Lokey

Quote from: Raoul Duke on August 30, 2012, 10:14:04 PM

Don't worry. No bitcoins are lost.

Go to your home dir and press CTRL+H to show hidden folders and go to the folder named .bitcoin.
IMPORTANT Take a backup of the .bitcoin folder contents to another location.
Now delete all files EXCEPT the one named wallet.dat.
Start bitcoin-qt again and see if it works.

It will download the blockchain again, so it will take time.

Aslong as you have a file named Wallet.dat
You have not lost your coins Yet.

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: WhiteBS on August 30, 2012, 10:16:33 PM

Delete EVERY file/folder in Home or JUST the hidden files?

every file/folder inside the folder called .bitcoin, except for the file named wallet.dat <--- this one has your bitcoins.
Don't forget to make a backup of the files before you delete them. Take special care of the file named wallet.dat.

WhiteBS

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edit* nvm sorry I didn't listen

Raoul Duke

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Don't worry. No bitcoins are lost.

Go to your home dir and press CTRL+H to show hidden folders and go to the folder named .bitcoin.
IMPORTANT Take a backup of the .bitcoin folder contents to another location.
Now delete all files EXCEPT the one named wallet.dat.
Start bitcoin-qt again and see if it works.

It will download the blockchain again, so it will take time.

WhiteBS

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So i installed bitcoin on Linux, using 12.04, extracted the file to my desktop and ran bitcoin-qt or whatever the executable was called. I transferred $22btc to my bitcoin wallet and now when I try to execute bitcoin wallet I am getting an error... please help me... is there a way to totally uninstall and reinstall?

This is the error message:

A fatal error occured. Bitcoin can no longer continue safely and will quit.

EXCEPTION: 22DbRunRecoveryException
DbEnv::open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
bitcoin in Runaway exception

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