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-rescan is a command line argument that is passed to the bitcoin client after restoring wallet.dat from backup.

  1. Which files get recalculated?
  2. Which files does the rescan command read?
  3. Why is it a good practice to first download all the blocks, then rescan, and not the other way around? (as a comment on this answer suggestsa comment on this answer suggests)

-rescan is a command line argument that is passed to the bitcoin client after restoring wallet.dat from backup.

  1. Which files get recalculated?
  2. Which files does the rescan command read?
  3. Why is it a good practice to first download all the blocks, then rescan, and not the other way around? (as a comment on this answer suggests)

-rescan is a command line argument that is passed to the bitcoin client after restoring wallet.dat from backup.

  1. Which files get recalculated?
  2. Which files does the rescan command read?
  3. Why is it a good practice to first download all the blocks, then rescan, and not the other way around? (as a comment on this answer suggests)
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How exactly does -rescan work?

-rescan is a command line argument that is passed to the bitcoin client after restoring wallet.dat from backup.

  1. Which files get recalculated?
  2. Which files does the rescan command read?
  3. Why is it a good practice to first download all the blocks, then rescan, and not the other way around? (as a comment on this answer suggests)