Topic: How do I Reindex? (Read 2934 times)
Also would recommend checking out your hard drive to confirm a failure isn't about to happen. I had a machine that kept losing the chain and having to reindex. About a month later lost my hard drive.
Glad to be of help!
No problem.
You mean -rescan option? If your client failed to read blocks, write -rescan in console.
The easiest method is to start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag, by running "bitcoin-qt -rescan" in a console or command prompt.
-rescan is for finding missing transactions
-reindex is to rebuild the blockchain (some of the data might be corrupt, so you dont have to download everything new, just the corrupted files)
I see all kinds of results in Google and on here advising to reindex to solve the "failed to read block" error. I don't see anything that shows how to reindex. Any tips?
Just launch it with
bitcoin-qt -reindex from cmd (windows) or terminal (linux)
Ah command prompt did the trick, thank you!
You mean -rescan option? If your client failed to read blocks, write -rescan in console.
The easiest method is to start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag, by running "bitcoin-qt -rescan" in a console or command prompt.
-rescan is for finding missing transactions
-reindex is to rebuild the blockchain (some of the data might be corrupt, so you dont have to download everything new, just the corrupted files)
I see all kinds of results in Google and on here advising to reindex to solve the "failed to read block" error. I don't see anything that shows how to reindex. Any tips?
Just launch it with
bitcoin-qt -reindex from cmd (windows) or terminal (linux)
The easiest method is to start bitcoin-qt with the -rescan flag, by running "bitcoin-qt -rescan" in a console or command prompt.
You mean -rescan option? If your client failed to read blocks, write -rescan in console.
I see all kinds of results in Google and on here advising to reindex to solve the "failed to read block" error. I don't see anything that shows how to reindex. Any tips?
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