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Title: Normal symbols in my wallet.dat? Post by: Henke79 on December 15, 2017, 06:55:31 PM I cannot open my wallet.dat... Is these normal symbols when i open it with wordpad?
the wallet is from 2011.... Tnɫ P @h8̈cYh: poolP N ~ L A xp0qLJߩ煘@\\ ;7t Q!aU/ poolO N ~ L AP! ݉j [@'R84M0f5f0ZǂU&#<{<7$sb Title: Re: Normal symbols in my wallet.dat? Post by: SopaXT on December 15, 2017, 07:38:28 PM To import your wallet.dat into Bitcoin Core, you'll need to copy it into the data directory, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory.
And yes, that is completely normal (the format of the wallet file is binary, with ASCII field names). Title: Re: Normal symbols in my wallet.dat? Post by: achow101 on December 17, 2017, 07:07:37 AM The wallet.dat file is not a text file, it is a binary file. If you want to see what data it contains, you will need to open it in a hex editor. To actually figure out what the data is, you will need to use Berkeley DB's database tools (specifically db_dump). Otherwise the data will not be in any recognizable form.
Title: Re: Normal symbols in my wallet.dat? Post by: tomasooz on December 18, 2017, 05:27:32 AM Henke93,
Do you still need assistance recovering your wallet? Let us know please, will be glad to help. Thanks! Title: Re: Normal symbols in my wallet.dat? Post by: Reefdogg on December 24, 2017, 02:03:50 PM About the wallet.dat file , there are keywords like "pool" , "name" , mkey, key! , ckey! , keymeta! and after the keywords is encoded data ..... I have tried to cut and past keyword sections of the file into another and it does not work. I would try to replace a "pool" section from one file to another and that basically just breaks your wallet. I think the keyword sections are linked in a way I don't understand. Maybe someone here can point to a page that explains that in detail.
Title: Re: Normal symbols in my wallet.dat? Post by: SopaXT on December 24, 2017, 04:40:30 PM About the wallet.dat file , there are keywords like "pool" , "name" , mkey, key! , ckey! , keymeta! and after the keywords is encoded data ..... I have tried to cut and past keyword sections of the file into another and it does not work. I would try to replace a "pool" section from one file to another and that basically just breaks your wallet. I think the keyword sections are linked in a way I don't understand. Maybe someone here can point to a page that explains that in detail. The wallet file is actually a Berkeley database. The keywords are the keys of the key-value pairs stored there, and some encoded data follows each key and value. To decode them, a tool such as pywallet would be needed. |