Dumping private keys gives me an error

[MelG]

Hey guys and girls. I am trying to get my private keys from old Bitcoin core wallet by dumping the wallet file with following console commands:

- walletpassphrase "my walletpassphrase here" 600
* walletpassphrase(…)
* null

and then:

- dumpwallet C:\dump.txt

But I get back: Cannot open wallet dump file (code -8)

What do I do wrong?

[1714728038]

1714728038

[1714728038]

1714728038

[1714728038]

1714728038

[Rath_]

But I get back: Cannot open wallet dump file (code -8)

Your forgot about inverted commas. You should also choose a different location. I couldn't dump my wallet directly to the C drive (probably due to lack of permissions). Try the following command (replace USERNAME with your username).

Code:

dumpwallet "C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\dump.txt"

[MelG]

Thanks! That worked. But now I am facing a new problem. The wallet dump seems to contain tons of lines but I cannot locate my BTC address that I used for this wallet anywhere in it. The address I have is starting with number 1 but all the addresses I can see in the dump are starting with number 3. 

What I am really trying to achieve is to be able to get the private key of my wallet that contains some BTC so I can import it with another wallet that does not require downloading the whole blockchain to be able to function. When I tried:

dumpprivkey mybtcaddress

I get back:

Private key for address mybtcaddress is not known (code -4)

[MelG]

I figured out. The only thing I did not understand was that the Bitcoin Core had changed the file structure for wallet.dat and I had placed my wallet file in a wrong folder.  Everything worked out now. Thanks again for the help! This topic can be closed.