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Hi,

Really hoping someone can help please.

I moved my old Multibit Classic wallet files ages ago from a laptop to a desktop PC. Also moved my Litecoin wallet. Litecoin seemed to want me to just move all the wallet files from the default location on the laptop to the same place on the desktop, and then sync, and this worked fine. I also moved my multibit wallet like this successfully.

I recently tried this again, as I upgraded my desktop PC. Unfortunately, this has not worked this time and all my BTC appears to be gone :(

All I did was...boot old PC, sync (verified that there was the correct amount of BTC in my wallet)...copy the entire folder containing the .wallet file to a USB stick. Install the same multibit classic client on new PC (0.5.16) and copy over the default files with my old .wallet files etc.

I synced...it took ages and at the end of this sync...it told me I had 0 BTC.

I re-read the instructions of what the moving wallet process was...and realised that i should have just copied them to a new location on the new PC, and just opened them. I tried this too, and this also does not work.

So I thought....I will just send them from my old wallet on my old PC to a new wallet on my new PC. Booted the old PC again without changing anything, and that also shows 0 BTC now as well!


So...the action of me syncing on the new PC has somehow wiped my wallet, or broken it or something, as nothing has changed on the old PC...and yet that now shows empty too.

I can check my old wallet address on the blockchain and it is still there, and there are no new transactions showing, but I now seem to have no way of accessing it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated please!

Many thanks...
Tim

Do you have the Multibit.key file aswell ? if yes then it's pretty simple, just do as it says here : https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_movingAWallet.html the Moving from MultiBit to Blockchain.info part .

Thanks for the tip but unfortunately not. The "key-backup" folder is empty.

You should be able to simply open the old wallet on your new machine.
The format is the same on all platforms.

A sync should not change the wallet balance, but if you don't let the sync complete it may not have all your transactions.

I would try opening the wallet off your USB stick, let it sync if it hasn't already, then if that does not work do a 'Tools | Reset blockchain and transactions' to force it to rescan the blockchain for transactions.

Also make doubly sure you are looking at the wallet you think you are (as you'll have several now). The title bar in MultiBit Classic gives the file location of your wallet for you to check.