On Windows. You can right click on the wallet and click on 'restore previous version' and see if it works. On other OS, you can look for something like that to restore the wallet and see if it is going to work.
The best is to backup your seed phrase on a paper and have like two or three backups in different locations.
i'll try that tnx
What condition was the wallet in before you tried to salvage it? What prompted you to try to use salvage?
Salvaging is a last resort thing to do and doesn't even work particularly well since there's lots of different things that can be corrupted that BDB can't recover from. Salvage is also known to actually corrupt perfectly fine wallets.
it said that the wallet was corrupted and to try to salvage it, which is what i did
Are you using the same PC where this wallet.dat was created? You can maybe try to recover it through pywallet to recover the missing wallet or private keys.
Sample command you can use with Pywallet
python pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=D: --recov_size=500Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\this is the folder for recovering files\
Just replace the recovery size 500 with the current size of your hard drive sample if the current hard drive is 256 GB then replace it with 256.
The best is to backup your seed phrase on a paper and have like two or three backups in different locations.
I don't think Bitcoin Core supports seed mnemonic.
yeah it's the same pc from 2014
i usually do a backup every year to keep up with the new version, but this wallet is empty so it was not so important, but i need it to prove that an old address is mine
what if i run a old bitcoin verion like 0.12 it should work there, myabe there is some backward compatibility issue
