Error initializing database environment and
settings\administrator\application data\bitcoin\database! To recover,BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY,then remove everything from it except for wallet.dat.
what does this mean.
Error initializing database environment and #2083
issue anand4 opened this issue on December 9, 2012-
anand4 commented at 2:35 AM on December 9, 2012: none
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Diapolo commented at 11:05 AM on December 9, 2012: none
Are you sure the message was not telling:
<pre> Error initializing database environment C:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\bitcoin! To recover, BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY, then remove everything from it except for wallet.dat. </pre>
Btw. please close the other double-post, thanks.
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laanwj commented at 11:37 AM on December 9, 2012: member
The error message can hardly be any clearer in what you need to do, can it?
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anand4 commented at 11:52 AM on December 9, 2012: none
yes, this is what it is saying
Error initializing database environment and settings\administrator\application data\bitcoin\database! To recover,BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY,then remove everything from it except for wallet.dat.
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timmc commented at 3:29 PM on April 8, 2013: none
The message is clear enough, but it doesn't explain what happened. (For me, it was after migrating my stuff to a new machine and downloading and running the 64-bit bitcoin-qt 0.8.1.) I'd really rather not reinitialize my blockchain, so a hint as to what has happened would be great.
ETA: I found more info here:
If you were running on Linux with a version that might have been compiled with a different version of Berkeley DB (for example, if you were using an Ubuntu PPA version), then run the old version again with the -detachdb argument and shut it down; if you do not, then the new version will not be able to read the database files and will exit with an error.
- laanwj closed this on Nov 7, 2013
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