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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: chainstate files?
by
NotATether
on 29/02/2024, 12:16:34 UTC
Yeah, as the diagnostic says, these kind of issues can almost always be fixed by running Core with -reindex (or -reindex-chainstate if only chainstate is corrupted).
But, what actually fixed it is by renaming the chainstate folder which is somehow restricted by a certain Microsoft product, then --reindex after.
The log and the errors in the second reply are the ones he got after using --reindex without renaming it first.

Why rename it? Old, corrupted chainstate folders still use a few GB.

Wouldn't it be better to delete the folder entirely?