corrupted bitcoin wallet problems

[Ian_Wright]

long story short, my bitcoin wallet has become corrupted somehow. what is the processes in which I can get a wallet program running again and salvage my bitcoins?

attached is one of error messages I received when I tried to let it fix itself by catching up with the block chain.

[tonychau77]

It seems like a error of bitcoin-qt. And fixing a corrupted wallet will be very hard if not impossible.

[Toxic Tom]

Grab the wallet.dat file from %appdata%, uninstall the bitcoin wallet, reinstall it, replace the wallet.dat file with your old one.

Hopefully this will work

[Ian_Wright]

ill try it, thanks

[Toxic Tom]

ill try it, thanks

Just out of interest, how much coin is in this wallet?

[Ian_Wright]

its looking good, but ill have to wait till it is caught up again to be sure. thanks for the help!

[RuecanOnRails]

Hopefully this has prompted you to create multiple secure backups consider storing some of your coins on paper wallets. (Wallet.dat holds your private keys, if it's not encrypted adequately anyone who gets it can use your coins)

Luckily this time around, the fix was as easy as backing up/moving the wallet.dat and re-downloading the blockchain. 

 

Looking closer at the error, you might have been able to fix it by simply restarting your computer. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with that file, it's just in use by another program so BitcoinQT is unable to fully launch. Could have been an earlier copy of BitcoinQT didn't close properly, or was still open and running in the background.