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All of you, thank you! I really mean that... its hard to express via a post, am really grateful (and to others who added comments which reinforced the message and therefore my confidence)

having never operated in the Bitcoin world, and not knowing anyone that has, I was worried at getting ripped off at every corner. And with it being someone else's money.... (a friend), that just added lots of pressure and anxiety to a situation which involved his livelyhood.

Now that I have done it (thanks to you) what seemed complex and scary is actually straight forward and I consider myself "schooled" (by you lot)

At least enough to know where to get coins, how to store and move them safely and securely.

On top... the other risk... that the criminals could have chosen to not hand over the encryption key and leave a friend without their WHOLE business record... well they stayed true to their word and handed over the key and I tested and it works.

So a big thank you from him as well!!!

Hello

thanks for the help so far...

Just running through the steps... wanted to double check one thing before i do it.

I have backed up the wallet and am trying to run the dumpprivkey command...

would i be correct in saying... the command is:

dumpprivkey myreceivingaddress                   ??

and I can copy "myreceivingaddress" within bitcoin core via file\receiving addresses???

It will then give me my private key which i can "sweep" into Electrum...

ps.... Electrum.org is the address to download the wallet??

Perfect sum up, thank you. Will do this and let you know how I get on

Thank you for the help coach 

Hi... right I think I just read this right and the previous post. to sum up (obviously nervous about doing this)

1. Backup the wallet.bat through the file\backup wallet menu (it is ok to do this whilst it is still trying to synchronise the network??)

2. Use the command lines (as stated above) to extract the current private key associated with the wallet

3. close the current wallet program

4. Install Electrum (can i do this on a totally different PC??)

5. create a standard wallet and remember the seed

6. Go to wallet, select private key and I think "sweep" is the best option and input my key (i think sweep is best, if i want to totally replace the current wallet with electrum??)

7. The bit coins that i transferred (3 days ago, and not visible in bit core because the network hasnt finished synchronising) will be there in Electrum for me to use...?)

does this sound correct, thank you all so much for your help

Hi, thank you for your reply... I added my answers/ questions in red...

Hi

I am stuck, can someone advise.

I desperately needed a wallet (ransomeware, not me, someone else)

installed bit core and transferred funds...

Bit core was on a slow internet connection (4Mbs) and downloaded ALL weekend... when i found it this morning it said 38 weeks of data to syncronize. The computer it is on is quite slow as well, not the best.

Did some reading... think I chose the wrong wallet...

I put it on a 10Mbs uncontended line... it has been on for 4 hours... downloaded 70-90 gigs and still showing 38 weeks!

what can i do... I cant see the money I have transferred until it is up to date... right? im guessing I cant transfer it out to another wallet until it is up to date? so I am totally stuck... right?

can anyone give me advice... I obviously need to pay the ransome before the price goes up.... arghhhhh! (just like to state... it is for a friend... i keep backups!)