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Back in ~2017 I tried to send some bitcoin from one wallet to another.  I was using an old version of the bitcoin core wallet as the source.  The transaction never went through and does not show up in the destination wallet.  I believe it was due to some incompatibility due to a segwit address.

The core wallet (source) is many blocks from being synched.  The hard drive I have it on is too small to fully synch.  If I install the current core wallet on a bigger drive, and import the wallet.dat file, then allow it to sync, will the coin re appear in my source wallet?

Is there a better course of action for recovery? Any advice would be appreciated as I'd like to recover the BTC.

Thank you.

Yes, that should work. You might need to rescan (https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/0.18.0/rpc/wallet/rescanblockchain/) your wallet if nothing shows up. By the way, you can check the balances of both wallets using some block explorer (https://blockstream.info/) if you know which addresses were involved.


You could export your private keys (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transferring_coins_from_Bitcoin-Qt_to_Electrum) and import them into some other software wallet, for example Electrum (https://electrum.org/#home). This way, you won't have to download all the blocks. As long as you are fine with using different software, you can give it a go. Note that before installing Electrum, you should verify the installer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240594.msg54223763#msg54223763).

Thanks a lot Rath_

I will give a full synch a try.