How to open multibit.wallet

[benjamin07]

Hi,

I was looking through my backup files and I noticed I have one called "multibit.wallet". I went to multibit website and found out they no longer developped the wallet, but google search still allowed me to download a Multibit desktop wallet.

I installed it but it turned out that the only method it presented to me to restore a previous wallet is to repeat the 12 words used to generate the wallet in the first place. I think this is new as I never had that before and I wouldn't know what these words were (again I don't recall every being asked for them).

Anyway, I was not able to just point the software to the old existing multibit.wallet file which I already have.

Is there any way to recover whatever is in that multibit.wallet file?

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[DarkStar_]

Do you remember the password for the wallet? Have you tried importing the wallet into Multibit to see if there is a password? Nevermind, just noticed that you couldn't import it. What happens if you try to import it? Are you sure that it is a multibit wallet file and not just a file named multibit.wallet for whatever reason?

If you don't remember the seed or the password at all, there isn't much you can do. If you remember some parts of the password you can try to bruteforce the parts of the password that you don't remember.

[Mister1k]

Hi,

I was looking through my backup files and I noticed I have one called "multibit.wallet". I went to multibit website and found out they no longer developped the wallet, but google search still allowed me to download a Multibit desktop wallet.

I installed it but it turned out that the only method it presented to me to restore a previous wallet is to repeat the 12 words used to generate the wallet in the first place. I think this is new as I never had that before and I wouldn't know what these words were (again I don't recall every being asked for them).

Anyway, I was not able to just point the software to the old existing multibit.wallet file which I already have.

Is there any way to recover whatever is in that multibit.wallet file?

You can easily import your bitcoin wallet's private key or can upgrade the wallet from the classic version to upgraded version with the steps available in the FAQ noted in multibit site.
https://multibit.org/help/v0.5/help_importingPrivateKeys.html
https://multibit.org/help/hd0.1/how-to-upgrade-from-classic.html

I hope this will be help for your needy things.

[subSTRATA]

Hi,

I was looking through my backup files and I noticed I have one called "multibit.wallet". I went to multibit website and found out they no longer developped the wallet, but google search still allowed me to download a Multibit desktop wallet.

I installed it but it turned out that the only method it presented to me to restore a previous wallet is to repeat the 12 words used to generate the wallet in the first place. I think this is new as I never had that before and I wouldn't know what these words were (again I don't recall every being asked for them).

Anyway, I was not able to just point the software to the old existing multibit.wallet file which I already have.

Is there any way to recover whatever is in that multibit.wallet file?

im assuming you have an older multibit wallet, and downloaded the newest multibit release off of their site, which may not be compatible. the site still hosts the older releases, you just have to look around a bit.
https://multibit.org/releases.html
on the left hand side of the page, you'll see:
latest
multibit HD
multibit classic

try either the classic or HD clients and you should be able to just open your wallet file like you used to be able to; I was able to open my old wallets and export the private keys using the classic client a few days ago.

[benjamin07]

Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

It was Multibit Classic, I downloaded it, exported the private key and imported the key in bitcoin-qt. All good.

Thanks.