I’m comparatively new to BTC however i’m all in on the rules behind it. I do know nothing about coding or cryptography, however I like the idea of decentralization and I’m an enormous Austrian Econ nerd.
I had about 0.045 BTC in Coinbase Pockets, and transferred about 1/3 of it to my Bitcoin Core node on my macbook for the sake of getting it out of a centralized trade. I’ve been working the Bitcoin Core software program for a couple of yr and a half now, however by no means used it as a pockets till per week in the past.
On 9/22/24, at 1500EST, the Core app stopped synchronizing with the community. I did some analysis as to why however didn’t make any adjustments. This morning, 9/24/24, I made a decision the most effective factor to do could be to extend the RAM allotment for the Bitcoin Core app within the preferences. A number of individuals on numerous boards stated this helped them when the Core app stalled in synching with the blockchain.
A dialogue field popped up and stated I wanted to restart the app for the change to provoke. I did so, after which every thing went to hell.
As quickly as I reopened the Bitcoin Core app, the next dialogue field popped up 
[You need to rebuild the database using – reindex to go back to unpruned mode. This will redownload the entire blockchain.
Do you want to rebuild the block database now?]
Once I chosen {OK}, this dialogue popped up subsequent. 
[Error: Error opening block database].
Once I choose {OK} on the second dialogue field, the app crashes.
As I stated, I’m comparatively new to Bitcoin, and I’ve gone down the rules rabbit gap for most likely over a thousand hours, learn Bitcoin Customary, Layered Cash, Dom Frisby’s Books, listened to each episode of Breedlove’s What Is Cash present, and many others. However I don’t actually have experience on using the app, or of command prompts or coding in any way. I additionally, like a whole fkn fool, didn’t write down my personal key, as I didn’t even know easy methods to extract it from the Core app, and I hadn’t devoted that a lot time to figuring it out as a result of I actually didn’t assume I would want it but. Lesson realized.
Any knowledge relating to easy methods to get the app to work once more, easy methods to replace it, easy methods to drive it to start out reindexing instantly on opening, easy methods to discover my personal key from the db recordsdata, and many others could be EXTREMELY welcome. Like I stated, I solely have about 0.016 BTC on this pockets, which isn’t a loopy quantity, however it’s not nothing (~$1000 as of 9/24/24) so yeah, please and thanks to anybody and everybody right here who would possibly be capable of throw me a rope.
