Have Armory .wallet file. Any way to move it to BT core or other?

[stealth210]

I've spent so many hours on this I think I'll just let the wallet rot unless I can get it going soon. Having a difficult time trying to access this Armory .wallet I have. Is it possible to extract this BTC or am I SOL? It's insane how much effort I have put into this to recover a negligible amount of money. I'm not sure why anyone ever used Armory, but I've invested bandwidth and so much time into getting my coin back.

Here's what I have done so far:
1) Fully syned Bitcoin Core v 0.11.2.
2) Armory v 0.93.3
3) OS: Windows 2008 Server 64 bit

I cannot seem to get it started. It blips its' spashscreen and dies. Below is what the log says. Is there any way to recover this wallet?


2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:1620 - C++ block utilities loaded successfully
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- BDM.pyc:418 - Using the asynchronous/multi-threaded BlockDataManager.
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- BDM.pyc:419 - Blockchain operations will happen in the background.  
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- BDM.pyc:420 - Devs: check TheBDM.getState() before asking for data.
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- BDM.pyc:421 - Registering addresses during rescans will queue them for
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- BDM.pyc:422 - inclusion after the current scan is completed.
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:3531 - Using settings file: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Armory\ArmorySettings.txt
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:95 - Reading files in fetcher directory:
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:104 -    announce         : 96f5d5f4253bac5528333c4fef3afd5fa0e931816bfd4c4c8b43d85cee002bb9
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:104 -    bootstrap        : b62c08932668ce162d51226135940724e90f4c71704ac936f74cc153b34cc251
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:104 -    changelog        : 1c01304b876de3e75672c8b13d9a00157556b86612afac1c88ffc40a8d7dfb90
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:104 -    downloads        : 28efee8047ee0a2c26ac9f785d93566fb5a45c20a794da6f972aa48db50ec35a
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:104 -    notify           : 87fa1adcd555be83a71b4f5935a6d4f85178ccbf5043531fdd71432b57d127ca
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2736 - loadWalletsAndSettings
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2790 - Loading wallets...
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:271 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?osvar=2008serverr2&os=win&ver=0.93.3&id=33df8d95
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2849 - Number of wallets read in: 1
2016-02-18 20:10 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2854 -    Wallet (eZYJsatF):    "Primary Wallet                  "   (Encrypted)
2016-02-18 20:10 (ERROR) -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ArmoryQt.py", line 7147, in <module>
  File "ArmoryQt.py", line 224, in __init__
  File "ArmoryQt.py", line 2869, in loadWalletsAndSettings
  File "genericpath.pyc", line 18, in exists
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found

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[tspacepilot]

It looks like your Armory .wallet file doesn't even load in Armory, is that right?  If that's the case, maybe the file is corrupted?  On the other hand, it looks like it's not corrupted since that error seems like a parser wanting one thing and finding another.  It says it found a list when it expected a string or buffer, so that doesn't sound like garbage, that seems like a format that's unexpected.  Can you clarify that you made this file in Armory and now it won't load there?

FWIW, you could go into "genericpath.py" and see about printing out printing out more information of what crashed at line 18.

Another thought, since that file is called "genericpath" I wonder if it's just a matter of getting your path right.  Can you show us the invocation you used?  I wonder if there are spaces in your filepath and the parser turned that into a list.  Maybe try invoking your tool with double quotes around your path if it includes spaces (and or \ escaped spaces).  I don't know how technical you are, maybe you can just show us how this is being invoked.

[goatpig]

Start Armory in offline mode with another datadir (--offline --datadir="someotherpath")

Go to Wallets -> Fix Damaged Wallets

Start with a consistency check and post the logs here.

[stealth210]

I think I have it almost going. Still in process right now, but I ended up spawning a new VM on my ESX box and doing a clean install. From there, started Armory in offline mode, did a backup of private keys. Imported those into Bitcoin Core. It recognized my transactions, so I think with a little more tinkering, I can get those extracted into something usable.

Thanks for the help.

[stealth210]

To clarify on the situation:

1) I last used the wallet (created in Armory) in 2014 and worked fine.
2) I tried to open the wallet with Armory recently
3) Repeated attempts at getting Armory to start failed, got it working with BT core, and then after full sync and adding the wallet would crash/fail to launch
4) I retreated and found instructions to export the private keys
5) Imported those into Bitcoin Core
6) I see transactions, but it's confusing to me since they seem to zero out
7) I received one transaction in 2014, sent one transaction later that year, but it seems something else happened.

I expected to see .4 BTC minus .02566

Any clues on this?

Here's the screenshot:

http://imgur.com/os85c5C

[shorena]

To clarify on the situation:

1) I last used the wallet (created in Armory) in 2014 and worked fine.
2) I tried to open the wallet with Armory recently
3) Repeated attempts at getting Armory to start failed, got it working with BT core, and then after full sync and adding the wallet would crash/fail to launch
4) I retreated and found instructions to export the private keys
5) Imported those into Bitcoin Core
6) I see transactions, but it's confusing to me since they seem to zero out
7) I received one transaction in 2014, sent one transaction later that year, but it seems something else happened.

I expected to see .4 BTC minus .02566

Any clues on this?

Here's the screenshot:

Did you also export and import the private key for the change address? From the screenshot and what you write it should be 1JQ...