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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: OmegaStarScream on June 23, 2015, 02:30:02 PM



Title: Exporting Private keys while Sync with Network ? [ASAP]
Post by: OmegaStarScream on June 23, 2015, 02:30:02 PM
I need this as soon as possible and I would appreciate it if someone can answer me pretty fast .

So basically I want to buy something and fast , however when I launched Bitcoin Core seems like Database was corrupt (not sure why since I closed it normally and waited for the window to close auto) so .; and now it's sync with the Network and it takes a lot of time on my PC (not sync , Reindexing )

I want to know if it's possible to export private keys or whatever to import them to another wallet ? before the reindexing finishs which takes a lot of time . ty


Title: Re: Exporting Private keys while Sync with Network ? [ASAP]
Post by: ranochigo on June 23, 2015, 03:30:47 PM
Go to %appdata%. You will see a file called wallet.dat. That file contains the private key. You won't be able to read it using text editors however. You can either use blockchain.info to use the online wallet by going to https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet or use pywallet (https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet) to extract the private key before importing into electrum or multibit.I don't personally recommend blockchain.info after so much security glitches but you can still give them a try, they are still okay for a quick spending.


Title: Re: Exporting Private keys while Sync with Network ? [ASAP]
Post by: OmegaStarScream on June 23, 2015, 03:33:27 PM
Go to %appdata%. You will see a file called wallet.dat. That file contains the private key. You won't be able to read it using text editors however. You can either use blockchain.info to use the online wallet by going to https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet or use pywallet (https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet) to extract the private key before importing into electrum or multibit.I don't personally recommend blockchain.info after so much security glitches but you can still give them a try, they are still okay for a quick spending.

Thank you so much , I just hope all will be fine while exporting them and the Reindexing didn't finish yet .