I'm going to do everything as you guys have suggested at some point today.

https://imgur.com/a/iqHNqBt

Prior to trying the suggestions I had a little play around with the folders and got the Bitcoin Core to start opening the [default wallet] which it's been doing now for the last 15 minutes...not sure if it's stuck or not but going to let it do it's thing for a couple of hours then work back on the suggestions.

Thanks


UPDATE : Bitcoin Core is now 'Rescanning' when I've attempted to open the old wallet.dat file

Appreciate all the replies here from everyone on the subject.

It does appear I have the same issue as the other user in v.0.21.0 with the 'first character' bug. I have double checked, I am using v.22.0 downloaded from https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/ (I'm based in the UK so am blocked from downloading bitcoin.org.

In regards to pasting the wallet.dat file into the folder I believe I am doing it correctly as the client recognises a wallet file (without the first character).

So presently I'm not sure what to try next. Might try and download Bitcoin Core on my dad's computer and see if encountering the same problem.

If anyone has any other ideas please advise.

Thanks

I think it's how my PC is just setup in regards to the back/forward slashes.

I have the Bitcoin Core now fully DL'd it's just each time I am trying to put my wallet.dat into a folder or sub folder the Bitcoin Core removes the first character so I can never open the wallet.dat. Tried to do some Googling about the problem but nothing seem to came up.

Annoyingly pretty sure I have some coins in the file too as I never spent them back in the day!

Appreciate the response, sorry I'm not the most tech-savvy.

Last week I downloaded Bitcoin Core and sync'd it up to 99% on one of my HDs until it ran out of space, so I had to start the whole process again on a different drive and it's just sync'd fully today. Maybe that's why the pathing is wrong when I'm trying to open a .dat file now.

In regards to:

Right-click on your bitcoin-qt shortcut, press properties, and add

-datadir=E:\Bitcoin

When I've right-clicked and gone to properties I can't see any option to add? It just brings up the tabs General/Security/Details/Shortcut/Compatability/Previous Versions.

Could you please point me in the right direction?

Hey everyone!

Was on my old PC from 16-17 and saw that I still had my Bitcoin folder on the hard drive with the wallet.dat file.

I've redownloaded Bitcoin Core onto my PC and let it fully sync, I have then closed the client and deleted the wallet.dat file and replaced it with my wallet.dat file from 16-17.

When I re-open Bitcoin core and go to File/Open Wallet I notice it's called 'itcoin'? When I click to open it prompts me with an error:

Wallet file verification failed. Failed to load database path 'E:\itcoin'. Path does not exist.

Can someone advise where I'm going wrong here? Not sure why the Bitcoin client is trying to open 'itcoin' and why the first character of that word is missing.

Thanks


p.s Just created a new wallet within the Bitcoin core as 'newwallet' Then when I open Bitcoin core and go to File/Open Wallet it appears in the list as 'ewwalet'.

Seems as though my Core isn't registering the first character of .dat files? Any ideas?