How to repair corrupted wallet.dat with groestlcoin-wallet

[jackielove4u]

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.