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Title: I discovered I have my 2013 wallet.dat file but the file is encrypted Post by: bitcoinermatt on December 09, 2020, 06:02:19 PM I was surfing trough my external hard drive files and found my old wallet.dat file. I currently have a full node on my PC, is it okay if I overwrite the old wallet.dat file with the new one? Will this screw everything up? The wallet.dat is surely encrypted though, I will be giving updates on the thread.
Thanks Title: Re: I discovered I have my 2013 wallet.dat file but the file is encrypted Post by: bL4nkcode on December 09, 2020, 06:15:34 PM I currently have a full node on my PC, is it okay if I overwrite the old wallet.dat file with the new one? Will this screw everything up? The wallet.dat is surely encrypted though, I will be giving updates on the thread. If the existing .dat file is important to you, you can make a copy of it and paste/save it into a specific folder then try to recover the encrypted file in the future. But if you don't care then you can proceed without having a backup. And afaik overwriting .dat files will not affect the wallet/client, it's just your wallets will be replaced. Title: Re: I discovered I have my 2013 wallet.dat file but the file is encrypted Post by: NotATether on December 09, 2020, 06:17:20 PM If the wallet is encrypted that means there has to be a password to it.
Do you remember the password to the 2013 wallet.dat? If you don't, I wouldn't recommend overwriting a wallet file you can already access with one you don't even know the password to and thus can not access - especially if your other wallet has funds in it. Title: Re: I discovered I have my 2013 wallet.dat file but the file is encrypted Post by: bitcoinermatt on December 09, 2020, 08:09:38 PM I was able to find the password of the wallet and I was extremely lucky! I found out I had around .5 BTC in the wallet!
Title: Re: I discovered I have my 2013 wallet.dat file but the file is encrypted Post by: NotFuzzyWarm on December 09, 2020, 08:25:46 PM I was able to find the password of the wallet and I was extremely lucky! I found out I had around .5 BTC in the wallet! Sweet!Nice find and rather handy around this time of year... Title: Re: I discovered I have my 2013 wallet.dat file but the file is encrypted Post by: bob123 on December 10, 2020, 03:50:53 PM I currently have a full node on my PC, is it okay if I overwrite the old wallet.dat file with the new one? Will this screw everything up? The wallet.dat is surely encrypted though Never ever just overwrite a wallet file. Always make a backup (or better: multiple). You never know whether you might have made a mistake. You really don't want to lose coins this way. Having a copy and renaming the wallet file instead of overwriting it is almost fool proof and definitely recommendable. |