Hey guys,
Not sure if I'm in the right forum or not here but I was wondering if anybody had any success using btcrecover?
I am trying to get into an old blockchain.info wallet and it seems like people have had success using btcrecover so I have given it a go.
I made a new wallet to test it out and put my exact password in the token file but when I run the check it comes back "password search exhausted" but I know that it is definitely the correct password
Can anybody shine some light on this?
This would probably be better off in the Bitcoin Technical Support category (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0)
Nonetheless, the software looks to be targeting situations where you don't know your entire password/seed, but know a portion of it. For example, maybe a piece of paper gets partially destroyed and you only know 75% of the password/seed.
From your situation, it sounds like you're entering the entire password (or what you think it is), and it's returning password search exhausted because it tries the password (& tries extensions of the password), and it doesn't work.
Try entering certain portions of your password seperately (not what you think it is entirely), and try those instead.
See the basics section on:
https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#btcrecover-tutorialHope this helps!