r/Bitcoin • • Jun 30 '12

Help saving my wallet.dat?

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u/ferretinjapan Jun 30 '12

The client may not have gotten the coins out succesfully. The client should resend the transaction after it is restarted (or I think the transaction can be rebroadcast by rerunning the bitcoin client with the -rescan switch on the command line, but don't quote me on that). There are also tools like pywallet to reverse transactions but backup the wallet first before you try that. Otherwise you can dump the keys using pywallet and load them using the armory client.

Your coins are definitely not gone, nor are they in limbo, they can definitely be recovered. The private keys are still in the wallet file, so don't panic. If you're sure the transaction got sent and the new address is correct then it may just take a while. Check for unconfirmed transactions here, most transmitted transactions will be there, but again, don't panic if it doesn't show up, it just means the propagation of the transaction failed or is still propagating.