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Title: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 02:01:10 AM Hello
I have a problem for the Bitcoin geniuses. I had a Bitcoin wallet on an office computer with coins in it, well the network administrator decided he was going to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 on it. So I used EASEUS recovery wizard and was able to recover wallet.dat. So I reinstalled Bitcoin and then copied wallet.dat into the Bitcoin directory and tried to run Bitcoin, bit Bitcoin wont run with all kinds of errors. like this: exception: 11dbexception DB:: open: invalid argument I will gladly pay someone 2 BTC who can help me to recover this wallet and get the coins inside thank you Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: ineededausername on September 17, 2011, 04:06:36 AM Hi cablepair,
Delete blk0001.dat and addr.dat. Then open bitcoin up again. Tell me if you still have the same error. Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: joulesbeef on September 17, 2011, 04:19:03 AM yeah i had that happen, use bitcointools, run fixwallet.py (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11331.0)
try what ineededausername says first. if that doesnt work there are a couple other tools, but that is how i fixed mine and had same error. i didnt do any of the striping "--noaccounts --nosettings --notxes --nopubkeys" but mine might not have been as corrupted. If you want me to fix it for ya, pm me. pywallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0) is a great tool as well. and you can just export your keys and import them in a new wallet. and then their is this tool, i havent tried yet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0) Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 11:10:55 AM Hi cablepair, Delete blk0001.dat and addr.dat. Then open bitcoin up again. Tell me if you still have the same error. That did not work, thank you though yeah i had that happen, use bitcointools, run fixwallet.py (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11331.0) try what ineededausername says first. if that doesnt work there are a couple other tools, but that is how i fixed mine and had same error. i didnt do any of the striping "--noaccounts --nosettings --notxes --nopubkeys" but mine might not have been as corrupted. If you want me to fix it for ya, pm me. pywallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0) is a great tool as well. and you can just export your keys and import them in a new wallet. and then their is this tool, i havent tried yet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0) when I try to run fixwallet.py it says ERROR:root could not open wallet.dat/main try quitting Bitcoin and running this again (but of course Bitcoin is closed) any ideas? Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 12:25:27 PM Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> ================================ RESTART ================================ >>> ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\fixwallet.py", line 61, in <module> main() File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\fixwallet.py", line 56, in main rewrite_wallet(db_env, options.outfile) File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\wallet.py", line 289, in rewrite_wallet db = open_wallet(db_env) File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\wallet.py", line 26, in open_wallet sys.exit(1) SystemExit: 1 >>> that is the exact error from the python window Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 01:08:43 PM as a matter of fact I get that same error when running any of the tools on wallet.dat
:( C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandr esen-bitcointools-45f5c00>dbdump.py --wallet ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again. C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandr esen-bitcointools-45f5c00>dbdump.py --wallet wallet.dat ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again. C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandr esen-bitcointools-45f5c00> Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 01:22:17 PM damn, you know what I think the problem is? I can't change a system directory to not be read only, by default these tools look for wallet.dat in my user directory which is set to read only and which I can't change, not even on the command prompt with attrib -r
is there anyway I can run this fixwallet.py on a wallet.dat in another directory than the default one? thanks Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: ineededausername on September 17, 2011, 02:41:21 PM Firstly you could edit fixwallet.py or something but that would take too long I guess.
You could also log in to the system account and force set it to read/write but that would not be recommended. Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: joulesbeef on September 17, 2011, 04:36:07 PM just copy over the default one to bitcoin-backup
and remove your read only protection. you should probably try pywallet and see if you can see keys in there. Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 05:25:27 PM i was completely wrong before when I said it was a permissions thing.
because its not the file is not read only. I have no idea why, but when I use any tool at all on my recovered wallet I get above error anyone can I help I will gladly pay you some coins, I recovered wallet.dat its 608 bytes but none of these tools will read it. Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: ajareselde on September 17, 2011, 09:38:25 PM go to task manager and close all processes with your ID, especialy bitcoin related.
then retry with bittools. cheers Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 09:46:00 PM thats not it, I wish it was that easy. I get the same error in linux I think the file is too corrupted i need some genius who wants to take the wallet file and hexedit it and get the keys out and rebuild the wallet
Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: trentzb on September 17, 2011, 10:00:09 PM i was completely wrong before when I said it was a permissions thing. because its not the file is not read only. I have no idea why, but when I use any tool at all on my recovered wallet I get above error anyone can I help I will gladly pay you some coins, I recovered wallet.dat its 608 bytes but none of these tools will read it. 608 bytes is too small. Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: cablepair on September 17, 2011, 10:28:24 PM im sorry that was a typo, the biggest and most recent wallet.dat I was able to recover is 608 KB
Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: BCEmporium on September 17, 2011, 10:40:01 PM Sounds hard, anyway try to not use spaces in the path to either the wallet.dat or the tool.
Eg. Mkdir C:\bitcoinRepair cp wallet.dat there cp tools there try to fix. Title: Re: [BOUNTY] need help getting recovered wallet.dat to work Post by: nhodges on September 20, 2011, 02:36:31 AM Have you seen the modified bitcointools here?
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