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Quote from: dirk1101 on January 17, 2024, 12:20:03 PM

I have an old Electrum wallet file but I've lost the seed. However, I do have the password needed to decrypt the wallet. A few weeks ago, it was functioning properly, but then I encountered a parsing error while opening it. Despite this issue, I was able to access the wallet successfully several times afterward. Unfortunately, the parsing error has now become persistent. Is there any way to resolve this issue?

I am offering a 100 Euro bounty for assistance in resolving this problem.

- Make a copy of your wallet before doing anything.
- Choose the wallet file you want to restore, right-click and search for "Restore Previous Versions".
- Use the SFC /Scannow command.
- You may have updated electrum to a version that is not compatible with your wallet.
- Electrum may be corrupt, reinstall.

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Quote from: dirk1101 on January 17, 2024, 12:20:03 PM

A few weeks ago, it was functioning properly, but then I encountered a parsing error while opening it.
Despite this issue, I was able to access the wallet successfully several times afterward.
Unfortunately, the parsing error has now become persistent. Is there any way to resolve this issue?

Unfortunately, before you can decrypt the master private key in your wallet file, the wallet file itself needs to decrypted before it
and with the error, it looks like it's not in proper Base64 format, other decrypting tools may result with similar error.

It's rare to hear of parsing error that intermittently fixes itself (at least for a while).
Perhaps it's an error in your RAM that was the cause of the parsing error, then it persisted once a persistent corrupted encrypted state was saved to your disk.
In any case, it's worth to check for hardware issues first before attempting to use the machine.

Plus your drive may still contain a working version of your wallet file when scanned by recovery tools,
so I'll advice you to copy the wallet file and use another machine or at least another system drive to work on its recovery.

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Quote from: dirk1101 on January 17, 2024, 12:20:03 PM

Is there any way to resolve this issue?

Restore your backup.

If you do not have a backup, file recovery is worth a try.

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And whatever you do, MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE WORKING ON IT.
Too many times people have made small issues larger ones when it all could have been avoided by having a 2nd or 3rd copy of the wallet and working with that.

-Dave

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The wallet file might be corrupted which is why you got a parsing error you can try to use a tool like Pywallet to extract the keys from the wallet file.

Here's the pywallet https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

Then use this command

Code:

python pywallet.py --dumpwallet > wallet.txt

With passphrase check my post here
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.56076033

How about hiring a professional recovery service there are well-known services here on the forum that can recover a wallet if you still have the wallet file they can maybe able to decrypt it check this service below

- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-wallet-recovery-services-for-forgotten-wallet-password-240779

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I have an old Electrum wallet file but I've lost the seed. However, I do have the password needed to decrypt the wallet. A few weeks ago, it was functioning properly, but then I encountered a parsing error while opening it. Despite this issue, I was able to access the wallet successfully several times afterward. Unfortunately, the parsing error has now become persistent. Is there any way to resolve this issue?

I am offering a 100 Euro bounty for assistance in resolving this problem.

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