Recovered a legacy Multibit wallet - now what?

[mistat]

Hey,

Long story short my back in 2013 I got into bitcoin and had some stored in a wallet on my work machine. The hard drive got formatted, and I thought it was gone for good. Recently I found the machine unused, so I plugged it into my laptop and managed to recover the multibit directory which hopefully contains the data required.

I've installed Multibit Classic on my local machine and attempted to load the recovered multibit wallet, but I see the following errors:

The user data directory is "/Users/michaelt/Library/Application Support/MultiBit".
The installation directory is "/Applications/MultiBit Classic.app/Contents/java/app".
Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Library/Application Support/MultiBit/multibit.wallet"...
... done.
Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet"...
The wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet" could not be loaded. Loading the backup wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet" instead.
Could not load the wallet file "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet".
The error message was "org.multibit.file.WalletSaveException Cannot save wallet '/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet"
Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet"...
... done.
Could not load the wallet file "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet".
The error message was "Cannot backup wallet '/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet"
Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/Mikes LTC Wallet.wallet"...
... done.
Synchronised with network.

The wallets are appearing in multibit classic, but they have 0 BTC and show no transactions. If I check out bitcoin address in blockchain.inifo I can see that it tracks 1 transaction, which was the recieving of my original bitcoin!

Can anyone please help me moving forward? I'd like to move the bitcoin into coinbase!

Thanks

[OmegaStarScream]

If the funds are appearing in a blockexplorer then you could always export the private keys (not encrypted) and import them to another wallet (Electrum or Bitcoin Core).

[HCP]

Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet"...
The wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet" could not be loaded. Loading the backup wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet" instead.
Could not load the wallet file "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet".
The error message was "org.multibit.file.WalletSaveException Cannot save wallet '/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit.wallet"
Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet"...
... done.
Could not load the wallet file "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet".
The error message was "Cannot backup wallet '/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-backup/multibit-20131128144755.wallet"
Opening wallet "/Users/michaelt/Recovery/NTFS_0001/Disk/Other lost files/MultiBit/Mikes LTC Wallet.wallet"...

Looks possibly like it is either struggling with "permissions" (ie. the write permissions don't exist)... or it might be some weird issue with the file path having "spaces" in it... might I suggest you try putting the .wallet files in a shorter path... like: "/Users/michaelt/wallets"... make sure there are read/write permissions on that directory... and the .wallet files themselves...

In either case, if the files are loading up... see if you can export the private keys (unencrypted)... you should then be able to import those keys into a more modern/robust/maintained wallet

[mistat]

Thanks guys. I moved the wallet, it seemed to resolve the permissions. I could export the keys and I've imported them to Copay!

Cheers