I Found my old wallet.dat file

[marimange]

I found my old wallet.dat file it took me 3 days to find out what was the passphrase and yeah obviously it was my cat's name lol..

But here's the problem everytime i try sending BTC i get error failed to create transaction, not really sure what to do nor how to fix it....

Did anyone had this issue and managed to fix it?

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[nc50lc]

What error did you get before "failed to create transaction"?
There should be another error that says the actual issue.
If there's none, check the latest entry in your "debug.log" located in bitcoin data directory.

Yes there are a couple of users with the same issue, most of them have bought the wallet.dat or got it from someone else.
I hope it's not the case here.

[Chikito]

Maybe you can try another way by sending it again using electrum. But, you have to get the private key first by "dumpprivkey" or "dumpwallet" on the console.

[bob123]

Please read the pinned thread called [READ BEFORE POSTING] Tech Support Help Request Format.

Then, use the format specified in the thread.

It is kind of annoying having to ask tons of questions, just to be able to help you.
Do yourself and everyone else a favor and read the pinned thread first, and then edit the OP with all the information which might be relevant for your problem.

You'll get more people contributing and offering advises if they don't first have to ask you tons of questions and guess what the problem might be based on almost no useful information you provided.

[BitMaxz]

Most of what I heard about this error "failed to create transaction" is due to small inputs or there are many small transaction from the wallet(Mostly earn from faucet sites).

They mostly called it "dust transactions" so if you have these many small transactions from your wallet the fee its more costly than the amount you want to send.

Read this some post from other people out there.

I've been reading if you have a load of mini transactions you can end up with this error, rendering your wallet useless.

and this

Is your wallet made up up of many, many small amounts? Have you visited any sites giving small amounts of Bitcoin away for "free"? If so, your client is coughing up on the fact that all the small transactions are costing more than the fee they incur to spend.

So I think the only solution for this is to consolidate all dust transactions and manually make a raw transaction with 1 sat/byte fee. I think this is not the right time to do this because there is a big spike on the mempool recently(due to Bitcoin demand) maybe wait a bit if the mempool size is drop and back to normal.