Help Multibit wallet recovery!

[Nottsboy101]

Hi there,

I am currently trying to recover some BTC that i purchased in 2014. I bought them on bittylicious and stored them on multibit, which i now see has been discontinued... The BTC was an old mac that died in 2016 and I only today recovered the harddrive. I recovered multibit and got it running on my windows. However, once synced it had a balance of 0 BTC. However, what is also strange is the transaction history is completely empty, which leads me to believe none of the actual data has been recovered. I made the wallet several years ago and i was somewhat of a novice so I haven't got a clue what I did with my backup keys or anything.. What am i looking at here?

-A wallet that needs restoring (requiring back up keys)
-A wallet that hasn't transferred the important data over to my new laptop
-Give it up mate there gone.

A friend suggested that I may have better luck getting the old macbook fixed and accessing them via that, however this will be a rather larger investment. An investment that will be worth it if the BTC is there, but a big hitter if not. Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks

[Bitfort]

All you need is to extract the private keys and import/sweep them into some other wallet ( I'll recommend you electrum).
Hope you still know the pass for that wallet ( or is unencrypted ).

The big problem with old multibit is that it's not a HD wallet (so every time you created new receiving address you had to make new backup as well)

What I find weird is that you can't see the tx history. Sounds more like you created new wallet instead opening the old one.
Try to use some explorer ( https://www.blockchain.com/explorer ) and put in your BTC address to check the current balance.

Somewhere in multibit is option to export private keys.
Do that.
Install electrum (create new wallet, backup your seed), open the exported file in text editor, in electrum find sweep function and copy paste exported private keys. It will show you how much coins going to sweep and asks you for confirmation.

[NeuroticFish]

Please move this thread to someplace more technical, like the "Alternative clients" board, more people could help there.

There were Multibit and Multibit HD. Please make sure about what did you use and what you installed now.

Iirc, Multibit (Classic) used to store its wallets on user profile folders. C:\Users\<your_user>\AppData\Local\multibit or C:\Users\<your_user>\AppData\Roaming\multibit or something like that. I don't know the equivalent on Mac, but you have to find the wallet file, I think it had the extension .wallet; more files, like .info and such *may* help, but the wallet file or a backed up .key file is want you need. Without that you may have just started Multibit which created a brand new wallet (with brand new address).

Btw, don't you have written down the old address with your money on it? One thing would be to see if this wallet you have now has the same address...

So.. first of all, you should start by searching on the old hdd for files/folders called multibit or *.wallet...