EDIT:

OK, after some gnashing of teeth, cursing, and a bit of Googling, I got PyWallet installed and removed the transaction. Blockchain.info flags it as a double spend (which it is...) but it's getting confirmed and just showed up as pending in my receiving account. Fingers crossed but...

:-)

Thank you ranochigo for the -zapwallettxes command, it's looking like the wallet is back to a pre unconfirmed transaction state.

Cheers!

As I said in my post, this was an older version of BitcoinCore (v0.11.0) and the transaction fee was set at it's default value.

The question is, can I get my coins back into my wallet? Everyone here keeps claiming that unconfirmed transactions automatically get returned to the sender's wallet, but after more than a month, that looks highly unlikely. I'm happy to tip a reasonable fee to get the transaction to go thru, or whatever to get them returned to my wallet, but I'm at a loss to what to do currently.

I'm not savvy enough / well versed in any of the double spending hacks I've seen mentioned to really attempt that without some serious guidance.

Suggestions?

I have an unconfirmed transaction sitting in limbo since 5/9/2016. Nothing has returned to my wallet / account.

The transaction ID has dropped off the radar everywhere I've checked:

Transaction ID: 1be2fdb7716ec211ab8aaf65f3433285d80f204c65f029ae4a082be83bb34082-000

I was emptying out the last of an old account and sending it to another account of mine using Bitcoin Core, an older version, and had not looked to see what the transaction fee was set to, and apparently it's too low. Transaction was for 0.10011500 BTC, with a fee of 0.0000146 BTC. The account was seldom used and had worked fine apx three months ago, so I had no reason to adjust anything.

It appears I'm just out the money with no recourse.

I only dabble here and there, and once the little usb mining nodes became outdated, I stopped mining.

Is there anything I can do to recover this money? It not the end of the world, but $68 bucks still buys a couple of tanks of gas....