Amazing that gives me a lot of confidence thanks. Although I have put the cart before the horse because I must gather and implement all the tools for offline wallet work first. This "old MultiBit" thing had me worried but I think I'm back on track. It will take me a time but I will report back or ask more if I get stuck.

"Legendaries" indeed.

Thank you both and you are both quite right. I'll just let this stew for a while to develop some courage and see if any more answers come. Then go 'old school' if I am allowed to post there.

I have 0.5.18 running. The copies were from a 0.5.17. So before HD, classic I guess. There is no wallet.dat in my copied folders. Is that not a bitcoin core notation for storing wallets?

I do have the password, but am wary of opening old .wallet files in this deprecated software. Thanks.

Hi, I got some satoshis a few years back then kind of wandered off.

It's on a multibit wallet, but I think I didn't properly back it up to .wif files (cmiiw), just made copies of the whole folder, containing .wallet .key and .info files.

If I just open this wallet now in my old multibit application, will that be unwise?

Or should I or how can I import what I've got safely in to electrum or whatever you advise as a good modern wallet for this?

Thank you for any help.