help -- importing old wallet

[leshow]

i was into bitcoin in 2011 and recently found an old hard drive, i thought i had spent all my old coins... but for interests sake i ran wallet-recover (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0)

and to my surprise found 198 public/private key pairs. i now have those in a wallet.dat. i'm interested to see if i actually have any money in it (kinda hope i do, but for the life of me i cant remember)

i don't have bitcoin-qt. is there any other method to import the wallet into something like electrum or multibit?

[michagogo]

You could use jackjack's pywallet to dump the private keys from the wallet, and then I assume Multibit can import them. I don't have personal experience with either of those tools, so I unfortunately can't give you specific instructions, but hopefully this will point you in the right direction.

[jzcjca00]

You could check the balance of each public key manually at blockchain.info, but the least effort is probably just load Bitcoin-QT.

[leshow]

You could check the balance of each public key manually at blockchain.info, but the least effort is probably just load Bitcoin-QT.

i ended up manually sweeping all the private keys into my blockchain.info wallet.

found 1.014 BTC! not much but i'll take it