How to repair corrupted wallet.dat with groestlcoin-wallet

jackielove4u · March 25, 2021, 05:12:53 PM

The following were tested in Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04

place a copy of the corrupted wallet and name it wallet.dat in ~/.groestlcoin
wget https://github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin/releases/download/v2.21.0/groestlcoin-2.21.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
tar -zxvf groestlcoin-2.21.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
cd groestlcoin-2.21.0\bin
.\groestlcoin-wallet.exe salvage (an automatic backup file will be created: wallet.dat.xxxxxxxxxx.bak)
Open Groestlcoin Core. It will start rescanning from the start and will take a long time. Just keep it running.

The following were tested on Windows 10

Download and install: https://github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin/releases/download/v2.21.0/groestlcoin-2.21.0-win64-setup-unsigned.exe
place a copy of the corrupted wallet and name it wallet.dat in %appdata%\Groestlcoin
windows button + r
powershell
cd\
cd '.\Program Files\Groestlcoin\daemon\'
.\groestlcoin-wallet.exe salvage (an automatic backup file will be created: wallet.dat.xxxxxxxxxx.bak)
Open Groestlcoin Core. It will start rescanning from the start and will take a long time. Just keep it running

The following were tested in OSX

place a copy of the corrupted wallet and name it wallet.dat in ~/.groestlcoin
curl -O https://github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin/releases/download/v2.21.0/groestlcoin-2.21.0-osx64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf groestlcoin-2.21.0-osx64.tar.gz
cd groestlcoin-2.21.0\bin
.\groestlcoin-wallet.exe salvage (an automatic backup file will be created: wallet.dat.xxxxxxxxxx.bak)
Open Groestlcoin Core. It will start rescanning from the start and will take a long time. Just keep it running.