BDB failures still suggest user to delete everything #2488

issue sipa opened this issue on April 8, 2013

sipa commented at 3:58 PM on April 8, 2013: member

It should just say remove database/, as no other files are related to the wallet anymore.
Diapolo commented at 7:09 AM on April 9, 2013: none

@sipa Could be related to #2333, as I said, a former pull changed the message in Step 5: verify wallet database integrity, whereas everyone seems to ignore step 7 ;).
sipa commented at 12:20 AM on April 13, 2013: member

I wonder how to formulate this correctly. It shouldn't suggest making a backup of the entire directory - just wallet.dat and database/ should be enough, and then removing database/. I wonder if that isn't better automated.

Then again, the whole try-to-salvage-a-wallet idea is a huge hack, and I suppose we'd rather get rid of BDB wallets as soon as possible anyway.
sipa cross-referenced this on Apr 23, 2013 from issue Some database/-related recovery improvements by sipa
Diapolo cross-referenced this on Apr 30, 2013 from issue Inaccessible wallet.dat => user instructed to wipe blockchain by zw
sipa commented at 10:18 PM on May 3, 2013: member

Closed by #2558
sipa closed this on May 3, 2013
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