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I'm feeling a little dim - I put a bunch of coins into a litecoin brain wallet, but never worked out how to take them out again -

I assume I have to import the public and private keys into another wallet.  However, I am not too sure how to do that - as I can't find an import facility.

Do I need to do this by hand?  Do I need to edit a wallet config file or something?

What is the best wallet to use for litecoins?

thanks in advance!

you can use liteaddress.org (or whatever method you initially used to generate the brainwallet), enter your passphrase and get the private key. 

if you use litecoin-qt, go to the debug window, then console and enter importprivkey <yourprivatekey>

to answer your question, the public key can be derived from private key, so you only need the private key to import your address.

Thanks for your help.

I've sort of got it working, but its not reading the balance in the wallet, even though when I check manually, using the block explorer, the coins are there.

How do I get it to check again?

Do I need to reset it first?

Your help is appriciated

when you run the client for the first time, it needs to download the entire blockchain first (just like bitcoin-qt).  the client should show the progress.  you'll see the balance when you reach the block that has your LTC transaction.

Weird, I just tried this and got an error:

"code":-4,"message":"Error adding key to wallet"

Hi,

I got exactly the same issue,
How import private key in litecoin-qt ?

Thanks

I put seven ltc into a litecoin brainwallet and am now having this exact same issues so bump!

I just managed to successful import a ppcoin wallet, but with litecoin it doesn't seem to be working. its only 7 ltc so not that big of a deal, but still would be shitty to lose that.

I finally got an error code 4 the other day while trying to import a private key.  Freaked out for a second because it was 1000 LTC.  Waited for my client to finish synchronizing, closed it, restarted it, then tried it again and it worked! 

mine was synchronized and i had tried restarting. i havent yet taken the obvious step of uninstalling and reinstalling the client. ill give that a shot.

If you have encrypted your Litecoin wallet, you will have to use the walletpassphrase command in the console to unlock your wallet for a timeout.

So something like walletpassphrase yourpassword 120, would unlock your wallet for 120 seconds.

Then run the above command for the private key import.

try using the -rescan switch when you restart the wallet. 

I managed to since get this working with my 7 coin.

first step, go to the folder %appdata%/Roaming/Litecoin and delete wallet.dat (make sure you dont have any money in THIS wallet first)

now run Litecoin, catch up the whole blockchain.

go to "Run," and type "cmd"

with the client running navigate to litecoin install directory (program files or program files (x86)/litecoin) you can do this by typing cd\ the cd program files\Litecoin. if you're unsure where you are use dir /w

once there cd daemon

once there run litecoind -importprivkey *your private key here*


that worked for me.

I have Litecoin-Qt on a mac.  I did the following steps and it worked.  But first the Qt was "not responding."  I had to force quit.  When I reopened it, the coins were there, phew!

help --> debug window --> console --> type "litecoinprivkey" <enter your private key> <press enter>

So a minute after I pressed enter, then restarted Litecoin Qt, the coins were there.  It's like magic!!!!!

what if a users passcode is not remembered?  would there be a way to get into the backup and extract info

no

Guys how do I import a brain wallet if I have a password to protect the paper wallet?