dumping private key not possible

[ehmdjii]

hello, so i own this address, but when i want to dump its private key it says:

Private key for address 1DcdQWLVGjBz12B3FM1Db27ukZo4WeUD9o is not known (code -4)

what can i do about it?

[DannyHamilton]

The address shows up in the "Receive Coins" tab of Bitcoin-Qt?

Is your wallet password protected?  If so, you may need to run:

Code:

walletpassphrase YourPasswordHere PasswordTimeoutHere

Where "YourPasswordHere" is replaced with your actual password, and "PasswordTimeoutHere" is replaced with the number of seconds you want the password stored in memory and usable by the wallet.

[ehmdjii]

yeah it is encrypted and i did run the command to unlock it.

and yes it shows up in the received tab and i already have received coins through it.

[DannyHamilton]

Sounds like some sort of bug in the software or a corrupted wallet.dat file then.

Which version of Bitcoin-Qt are you running?

You might need to look into using pywallet to get the private keys from the wallet.

[ehmdjii]

using latest 8.1

pywallet cant access encrypted wallets afaik.