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Remove Orphan blocks from "personal" blockchain

Remove Orphan blocks from "personal" blockchain I'm aware that this might not be the correct forum to ask a question regarding a Litecoin-clone but I'd be more than happy if anyone can point me in the right direction! Alright, so I've been trying to learn a little more about the blockchain and blockchain-development lately. For every other altcoin, I've noticed that there's such a thing as a bootstrap.dat-file which, as I understood it, essentially is a file containing the "correct" blockchain which simply get imported to the computer in order to speed up the synchronisation of the blockchain of a certain coin. I would like to learn how to create one of these bootstrap.dat-files by myself (or at least learn the theory behind it). I found this post. I followed the instructions in the second answer, running this cat blk000*.dat > bootstrap.dat code in Terminal which did create a bootstrap-file. I imported this to my second computer, s...