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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 5 from 3 users
Re: How to manually verify blk*.dat and rev*.dat files?
by
amaclin1
on 20/02/2019, 18:31:46 UTC
⭐ Merited by bones261 (3) ,d5000 (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
Your files are not corrupted.
a) BitcoinCore writes blocks into blk*.dat files not in their order.
b) BitcoinCore keeps orphan blocks in blk*.dat files
This causes differences.

The databases are equal - but the files can be different