Just use your backup. You weren't stupid enough to keep your only copy on volatile flash memory using a file system that doesn't support recovery were you.

>>107588199
Imagine being this tech illiterate

Ask keepass forums for more help. It will read as corrupted even if you corrupt a single byte near the end even though most of the file should be recoverable (I think).

>>107588199
you could try using the command line version of keepass

>>107588322
he's asking just in case someone else did that

>>107588199
>I corrupted my .kdbx file by wantonly unplugging my USB all the time instead of properly ejecting. Now my bits are corrupt and I can't open my file.
backups
>File recovery programs are expensive. Can I just take my USB to a professional, and just ask him to recover this one single file and it'll be cheaper
nothing you can recover, bytes are now wrong, how the fuck do you want them to recover the db? maybe it sleeps in your temp folder, use photorec on your drive and see if a copy was ever stored somewhere on your machine but I doubt it.

3-2-1 backup rule, look it up, this should be taught in school at this point because people are hoarding hundreds of GB if not a few TB without a backup plan, it's pure insanity and no, icloud or gdrive aren't safe either, see the thousands of stories of people accounts getting terminated over night for no reason

>>107588371
didnt work. thanks for the tip tho.

>>107588322
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>>107588418
i'll just try again a month from now. oddly enough, this has happened to me before and eventually it ended up working again.

>>107588418
>how the fuck do you want them to recover the db?
The thing is, we don't know if the file can still be reconstructed from the data pieces that have yet to be overriden. There's also secret partitions with full copies of your visible partition but they are only accessible if you know the codes and tools of the trade, which most people don't.

>>107588562
op here, so what can i do?

>>107588719
Don't use it at all anymore to avoid destroying the fragments that may still exist and try TestDisk, a free partition/file recovery tool that has saved my ass many times.

>>107588418
>this should be taught in school at this point because people are hoarding hundreds of GB if not a few TB without a backup plan
99% of that is pirated media which they could just torrent again

>>107588504
>oddly enough, this has happened to me before and eventually it ended up working again.
and you didn't think to make a backup?????

>>107588562
>reconstructed from the data pieces that have yet to be overriden
That's completely incompatible with kdbx, the database isn't encrypted row by row but entirely when saving so there is no discernable data structure and is pretty much indistinguishable from noise. op is completely fucked unless his keepass distro cached the database somewhere but that's unlikely for something like keepassxc based on their security statements

>>107589709
It might be partially recoverable depending on how much and which part exactly is corrupted.

>>107588199
You have other copies of the .kdbx file, though, right?