Topic: Cannot restore wallet (Read 795 times)
Export your private key to the new wallet with PyWallet or dumpprivkey/importprivkey pair API
Do you have any other copies of the wallet file you can compare it with, to ensure your "really old copy" is still bit-for-bit accurate?
Maybe try using an older version of bitcoin? they should all be backwards compatible, but give it a shot anyways. As a last resort you should be able to extract the priv keys from that file and put them in a newly created wallet.dat
If this doesn't help you can try Gavin's Bitcoin Tools:
https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools
to extract the keys.
Maybe try using an older version of bitcoin? they should all be backwards compatible, but give it a shot anyways. As a last resort you should be able to extract the priv keys from that file and put them in a newly created wallet.dat
I have a really old wallet.dat file that I'm trying to restore, and whenever I put it in the data folder, bitcoin fails to start and gives me this error:
https://i.imgur.com/kc0WP.png
https://i.imgur.com/kc0WP.png
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