Pywallet 2.2: manage your wallet [Update required]

[skaleita]

Been toying around with this repo for awhile, have a few templates made for the UI

[MrTR3]

It's possibly a permissions error... or simply the Python on WSL Ubuntu not having the "proper" access to the devices due to some limitations of the WSL

Is there a reason you aren't simply installing and running Python on Windows 10? I have Pywallet running OK within the native Windows 10 environment.

APART from being a novice at most of this ,

no ,

thanks for your support ,

I persist ..

[HCP]

In that case, you may be better off setting up Python natively in Windows itself. The Windows Linux Subsystem, while useful.. is NOT Linux. It still runs on the Windows Kernel, so there may be issues.

Go here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2715/

Get the "Windows x86-64 MSI installer" if you have 64bit Windows... or, if you have 32bit windows, get "Windows x86 MSI installer".

NOTE: DO NOT install Python 3

[rossen]

Is there any released 2.2 version? I can not found any link.

I want to dump wallet file from 0.12 version, but pywallet from github by jackjack-jj doesn't found any key

[HCP]

Is there any released 2.2 version? I can not found any link.
I want to dump wallet file from 0.12 version, but pywallet from github by jackjack-jj doesn't found any key

what did you download exactly? And which OS are you wanting to run on?

I've used the .exe listed in the OP (https://github.com/downloads/jackjack-jj/pywallet/PWI_0.0.3.exe) to install and run PyWallet (and necessary libs) on Windows 10... and also used the pywallet.py file from the github (https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet) under Linux.

[rossen]

Is there any released 2.2 version? I can not found any link.
I want to dump wallet file from 0.12 version, but pywallet from github by jackjack-jj doesn't found any key

what did you download exactly? And which OS are you wanting to run on?

I've used the .exe listed in the OP (https://github.com/downloads/jackjack-jj/pywallet/PWI_0.0.3.exe) to install and run PyWallet (and necessary libs) on Windows 10... and also used the pywallet.py file from the github (https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet) under Linux.

> python2 pywallet.py --version
pywallet.py 1.1

This is the latest version from github. GNU/Linux OS

[HCP]

That look like it might just be an unfortunate coding error: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/blob/master/pywallet.py#L4739

The "2.2" version seems to be used elsewhere in the code: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/blob/master/pywallet.py#L3

*shrug*

In any case, if it isn't finding keys in your "wallet.dat", then something else is going wrong... are you getting any errors displayed? is the wallet.dat encrypted?

[Lexiko]

Does any new version or fork for pywallet ?  Has anybody succeeded to dump Bitcoin Cash wallet with pywallet?
Maybe somebody advise any other tools to extract private keys/addreses from my broken wallet from command line.

[Lexiko]

I've made some changes according to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.msg30435668#msg30435668 post.

But my changelog is:

Change Line #2111 from:

Code:

				d.update(parse_BlockLocator(vds))

to:

Code:

				#d.update(parse_BlockLocator(vds))

Change line: #2502 from

Code:

json_db['bestblock'] = d['hashes'][0][::-1].encode('hex_codec')

to

Code:

                elif type == "bestblock":
                        pass
                elif type == "hdchain":
                        pass
                elif type == "bestblock_nomerkle":
                        pass
                elif type == "keymeta":
                        pass
                elif type == "purpose":
                        pass

Both BCH and BTC wallets were dumped ok!

[HCP]

Thanks for the update...

It should also be pointed out that these mods are likely to only work properly for dumping the wallet... I would advise that users do not attempt to use any of the other wallet "modification" features as it will most likely corrupt the wallet.

Simply reading/dumping the wallet should be fine. But as always... work on a copy of your wallet.dat!

[Lexiko]

Thanks for the update...

It should also be pointed out that these mods are likely to only work properly for dumping the wallet... I would advise that users do not attempt to use any of the other wallet "modification" features as it will most likely corrupt the wallet.

Simply reading/dumping the wallet should be fine. But as always... work on a copy of your wallet.dat!

True! I don't recommend to use pywallet in case different from dump private keys! It's very old (last commit was 5 years ago). But, anyway, it's the best script to dump private keys from a binary wallet.

P.S. dumping BCH keys, it's not need to set otherversion flag. Use standard options, it's ok for dumping private keys from BCH wallets.

[SheriffBass]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF52V6xxCy8

Youtube video to show how to install.

I know it's been a while but "This video is unavailable"!!
any updated video/ audio tutorials??
Thanks,

[SheriffBass]

My today's success story: Computer of friend of mine crashed two days ago. He went to some IT guy, asking for repair. That guy recommended "format & reinstall" (wow, are all issues with Windows still solving this way?) and asked, if backup of office document and some other stuff is enough for him. Today, friend called me that he has reformatted harddisk and fresh install of Windows and he completely forgot to his bitcoin wallet with 80 BTC, asking me if there is any way how to recover them. I played with pywallet some time ago and I barely noticed such cool feature of finding private keys on raw device, so I told him I'll try the recovery.

It went smooth (except that issue with corrupted blocks - which btw means that "format & reinstall" didn't fix previous issues with Windows) and his wallet has been fully recovered. Thank you jackjack for so cool application, small donation is going your way.

what steps/ commands did you use to recover deleted wallet.dat.....?
Thank you,

[Lexiko]

My today's success story: Computer of friend of mine crashed two days ago. He went to some IT guy, asking for repair. That guy recommended "format & reinstall" (wow, are all issues with Windows still solving this way?) and asked, if backup of office document and some other stuff is enough for him. Today, friend called me that he has reformatted harddisk and fresh install of Windows and he completely forgot to his bitcoin wallet with 80 BTC, asking me if there is any way how to recover them. I played with pywallet some time ago and I barely noticed such cool feature of finding private keys on raw device, so I told him I'll try the recovery.

It went smooth (except that issue with corrupted blocks - which btw means that "format & reinstall" didn't fix previous issues with Windows) and his wallet has been fully recovered. Thank you jackjack for so cool application, small donation is going your way.

what steps/ commands did you use to recover deleted wallet.dat.....?
Thank you,

This pywallet options will help you:

 --recover             recover your deleted keys, use with recov_size and
                        recov_device
  --recov_device=RECOV_DEVICE
                        device to read (e.g. /dev/sda1 or E: or a file)
  --recov_size=RECOV_SIZE
                        number of bytes to read (e.g. 20Mo or 50Gio)
  --recov_outputdir=RECOV_OUTPUTDIR
                        output directory where the recovered wallet will be
                        put

For example: pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=c:\ -recov_size=150Gio --recov_outputdir=f:\

But I don't recommend to use the drive with deleted wallet file (not install tools like python etc). It's better to boot live from CD/Flash Drive or boot from another disk and try to recover wallet.

Steps:
1). Download pywallet (pywallet.py or exe file) from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.msg424586#msg424586
2). Run: pywallet.py (PWI_0.0.3.exe) --recover --recov_device=c:\ -recov_size=150Gio --recov_outputdir=f:\

[SheriffBass]

Hi, i'm having trouble importing my backup keys to my main wallet. I get the following output: http://pastebin.com/ii6SfsWr

Can someone help me please?

Why don't you import using below command which is used commonly instead of using pywallet?

Code:

importprivkey bitcoinaddressprivatekey

You can only import 1 key at a time.

kindly,
        MZ

is this a windows command, python command or a CMD command??
how do you use it??

[malevolent]

is this a windows command, python command or a CMD command??
how do you use it??

"Help" -> "Debug window" -> "Console" -> importprivkey "your_private_key" "your label" false

If you're importing only one private key, or importing the last one, do the rescan and omit the 'false' parameter.

edited due to missed quotes

[SheriffBass]

is this a windows command, python command or a CMD command??
how do you use it??

"Help" -> "Debug window" -> "Console" -> importprivkey "yourlabel" false

If you're importing only one private key, or importing the last one, do the rescan and omit the 'false' parameter.

Thanks for the quick response,  easy said than done, sorry not a familiar with that but guessing it's through a java editor of some sort!
I'm not as stupid as I appear here however when a .,/(-'";/,. Makes a difference in a command line I'm helpless!
See for refrence: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5161349.0

Thanks again,

[malevolent]

The instructions are for Bitcoin Core, of course, long ago it didn't have this command so people opted for pywallet. I edited my post because it was incomplete.

[SheriffBass]

The instructions are for Bitcoin Core, of course, long ago it didn't have this command so people opted for pywallet. I edited my post because it was incomplete.

If I download and run bitcoin core, does it have a tool to scan through my hard drive for possible wallets??

[malevolent]

The instructions are for Bitcoin Core, of course, long ago it didn't have this command so people opted for pywallet. I edited my post because it was incomplete.

If I download and run bitcoin core, does it have a tool to scan through my hard drive for possible wallets??

No, there are other tools for that, the rescanning I referred to scans the blockchain you would have downloaded with Bitcoin Core so that the wallet will know your balance and transaction info.