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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: berkanstein on September 13, 2016, 08:13:04 PM

Title: 3 year old wallet won't show correlated receive address
Post by: berkanstein on September 13, 2016, 08:13:04 PM

I've come across a few old wallet.dats from flash drives that will not show any confirmed transactions, balance, or addresses. I can see the transactions on the list, but I can't get any wallet to show the correlating receive address that should be connected. Is there a way to fix?

https://i.imgur.com/Brf5Exp.jpg

Has anyone experienced something similar?

Title: Re: 3 year old wallet won't show correlated receive address
Post by: achow101 on September 13, 2016, 08:15:57 PM

Start Bitcoin Core with the -upgradewallet option.

Title: Re: 3 year old wallet won't show correlated receive address
Post by: berkanstein on September 13, 2016, 08:31:25 PM

I've tried -repairwallet, -upgradewallet, some other random commands. It doesn't seem to change anything. Could I possibly disassemble the wallet (move privkey) or switch the wallet to a different bitcoin program?

Title: Re: 3 year old wallet won't show correlated receive address
Post by: achow101 on September 13, 2016, 09:15:46 PM

Quote from: berkanstein on September 13, 2016, 08:31:25 PM

Have you tried -salvagewallet?

Title: Re: 3 year old wallet won't show correlated receive address
Post by: cr1776 on September 13, 2016, 09:29:54 PM

Quote from: berkanstein on September 13, 2016, 08:31:25 PM

You could try pywallet to extract the keys and then import them elsewhere. Beware of anyone asking for copies of these.

Title: Re: 3 year old wallet won't show correlated receive address
Post by: Hazard on September 15, 2016, 03:34:11 AM

Download an archived older wallet from around the time the wallet.dat is dated (right click properties) and use that to dump the keys via debug console.