Recovery issue - please clarify...

[MikeJ_NpC]

So i am lost on what the issue is here, but if a developer can clarify the process here.. (there is more than this)

I am going to  keep it simple  stupid before posting.. but this needs to be clarified confirmed... ..
When you have a encrypted wallet ... and you want to change the passphrase but it is wrong...
The error it will  only show you is " The passphrase entered for the wallet decryption was incorrect"  --? is this correct?

Before i post the meat of the issue at hand here and my utter frustration now,.. please kindly confirm this ....  WILL this ever change? If the pass is BOB and i put BOOB it will cite that error only?

(to be continued upon confirmation)

[ranochigo]

Yes. The error shows when the entered password doesn't match the actual password of the wallet.dat. It is independent of the error that may have been present in the user's entered password.

[MikeJ_NpC]

Can the password in the dat file become malformed or garbled ? .... If it was incorrect would it assert that my change of the phrases do not match?  its handing it off to the next step to change so it was accepted but then declines the change...  its 2 messages and occurs  when i delete a space from the recovery , which i am told is outside the scope of the other co and is a core matter.


https://ibb.co/Dr39SJ8
https://ibb.co/KDmV9PP

[posi]

Can the password in the dat file become malformed or garbled ? ....

I don't think this is possible cause it was design to operate base on your command if there's typo no mistake from your end and if your computer is not infected.

If it was incorrect would it assert that my change of the phrases do not match?  

Technically, it will. If it acknowledged that the phrase did not match the password used to encrypt the file definitely tell it did not match and it will be better to check if your keyboard are working faultlessly.

its handing it off to the next step to change so it was accepted but then declines the change...  its 2 messages and occurs  when i delete a space from the recovery , which i am told is outside the scope of the other co and is a core matter.


https://ibb.co/Dr39SJ8
https://ibb.co/KDmV9PP

There's a mistake where. Do you successfully change the password? Which wallet are you using?

[HCP]

Can the password in the dat file become malformed or garbled ?

The password is not "stored" in the .dat file... the data in the .dat file is encrypted using the password as a key.

This error is indicating that the "old" passphrase entered in the "Enter Passphrase" textbox is incorrect

This error is indicating that the two passphrases entered in the "new passphrase" and "repeat new passphrase" boxes are not the same.

I suggest that you tick the "show passphrase" box and doublecheck that the passphrases that are being entered are correct...

If it was incorrect would it assert that my change of the phrases do not match?  its handing it off to the next step to change so it was accepted but then declines the change...  its 2 messages and occurs  when i delete a space from the recovery , which i am told is outside the scope of the other co and is a core matter.

It is indeed a 2-step process...

Step 1.
- Compare the text entered in the "new passphrase" and "repeat new passphrase" textboxes.
- If "new passphrase" == "repeat new passphrase", then continue to Step 2.
- Else show "The supplied passphrases do not match" error

Step 2.
- Attempt to decrypt wallet using text from "enter passphrase" textbox as the key
- If decryption is successful, then encrypt wallet using new encryption password (using text from "new passphrase" as the key)
- Else show "The password entered for wallet decryption was incorrect" error