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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: robdenis on March 22, 2014, 09:04:37 PM



Title: how to import wallet.dat
Post by: robdenis on March 22, 2014, 09:04:37 PM
Hi,

I have a wallet.dat, and I bitcoin-qt is stuck in limbo, so I tried to import my wallet into blockchain, but I don't know how.  https://blockchain.info/fr/wallet/import-wallet (https://blockchain.info/fr/wallet/import-wallet) doesn't work, so I used pywallet (dumpwallet) and I have the output of the command but how do I use this ? Is there a way to export the wallet.dat to mulltibit, electrum, or blockchain.

Please someone can help me.


Title: Re: how to import wallet.dat
Post by: PolarPoint on March 22, 2014, 09:26:20 PM
I never tried it, but Multibit seems to support importing wallet.dat directly
https://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html


Title: Re: how to import wallet.dat
Post by: cp1 on March 23, 2014, 06:22:05 AM
You can always sweep the private keys.  But you should just figure out what's wrong with bitcoin-qt.


Title: Re: how to import wallet.dat
Post by: BookLover on March 24, 2014, 06:05:24 PM
I never tried it, but Multibit seems to support importing wallet.dat directly
https://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html
It can import private keys but not bitcoin-qt's wallet.dat.  To import your wallet from bitcoin-qt to multibit you need to first export your private keys from bitcoin-qt using the dumprivkey command and then import those keys into multibit.


Title: Re: how to import wallet.dat
Post by: newtypeseed on March 25, 2014, 11:18:10 AM
You can just replace it


Title: Re: how to import wallet.dat
Post by: 11inches on March 25, 2014, 05:50:12 PM
open up bitcoin-qt. go to your console. make sure your wallet is unlocked and then type "dumpprivkey"

take your private key, put it in a text file and save it as whatever.key

launch multi-bit, settings->import private key, select the whatever.key

give it about 10-15 mins to import and you're done.

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