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Rewrite Wallet Recovery section 

The `-salvagewallet` option doesn't work well in practice, so don't mention it.
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Wallet Recovery
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The wallet database file may become corrupted. Zcashd supports a command line option to try to recover from this situation (``-salvagewallet``). When this flag is on, function ``Recover()`` will run.
The recovery procedure is as follows:
* Move wallet file to wallet.timestamp.bak
* Call ``Salvage()`` with fAggressive=true to
* Get as much data as possible.
* Rewrite salvaged data to fresh wallet file
* Set ``-rescan`` so any missing transactions will be found.
The ``Salvage()`` call is BDB specific, other database implementations may provide similar functionality.
The wallet database file may become corrupted. There are utilities in the `zcutil/bin`
directory that may help with recovering it if this happens. Please ask for help on the
Zcash forum or Community Discord.
Wallet Encryption
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^