New bitcoin-qt wallet doesn't recognize old wallet.dat?

[mcippolito]

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[Altoidnerd]

Does the new client not recognize wallets from clients circa January 2013?

I just did the same exercise and all went off OK.

What OS are you running? Give a bit more detail and I can try to help.  

e.g. is this a new computer?  Can you toss this wallet.dat somewhere else (or where it came from) and try that?  Tell me all about your situation.

[bitpop]

You must rescan, it will the a long long time

[Kaligulax]

I dont think that is true... surely you did something wrong