I upgraded my bitcoin client to 0.6.3, but when i open it it said ' error loading blkindex.dat' . Could some please tell me how to fix this? Also will my bitcoins be lost from the previous bitcoin client?
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postfan commented at 6:07 PM on July 21, 2012: none
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gmaxwell commented at 6:09 PM on July 21, 2012: contributor
Your bitcoins should not be lost. You should, however, always make regular backups of your wallet.dat. Before trying to perform any further repair you should go and make a wallet.dat backup on removable media. You should also make a backup of the whole bitcoin directory for extra security.
After doing that, if you delete everything except wallet.dat in the Bitcoin data directory you should begin running again. I can only guess that perhaps you did not shut down Bitcoin cleanly before your upgrade.
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postfan commented at 6:16 PM on July 21, 2012: none
where is the wallet.dat file located?
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gmaxwell commented at 6:25 PM on July 21, 2012: contributor
What platform are you on? Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac, other?
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postfan commented at 6:38 PM on July 21, 2012: none
Windows
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gmaxwell commented at 6:42 PM on July 21, 2012: contributor
You should be able to plug %appdata%\Bitcoin into explorer to find it.
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postfan commented at 8:04 PM on July 21, 2012: none
Ok, Bitcoin is working again. Thanks a lot for your help!
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