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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: nachius on January 06, 2014, 04:36:31 AM



Title: [SOLVED!]Need PYWallet Help - dumping private key
Post by: nachius on January 06, 2014, 04:36:31 AM
Well long story short I had an android wallet on my phone.  I apparently outgrew it as I received an email from the developer that it was running out of memory due to the number of transactions at which time it lost transactions and I can't transfer the btc out because it crashes and shows incorrect amount.

I have a password protected backup of the wallet.dat but the format doesn't import easily into other wallets as I understand it is bitcoinj and not bitcoind if I am reading posts correctly?  I was attempting to use pywallet to dump the private keys so I can then transfer the btc into multibit or something similar so I can send it off to storage.

I don't know python syntax, I am on a windows7 machine and the web interface gives errors when trying to dump the wallet or keys.  I have also tried the following syntax command line:

pywallet.py --dumpwallet --datadir=DATADIR --wallet=WALLETFILE --passphrase=PASSPHRASE

Is there anyone that can help me through this process?  I'll throw a little btc your way!


Title: Re: Need PYWallet Help - dumping private key
Post by: nachius on January 06, 2014, 05:25:36 AM
Posted a little premature.  Got it imported into multibit thanks for those that wasted time reading this :)