Help me :( lost a thousand pounds trying to back my coins up

btc2doge

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Quote from: Miner687 on March 18, 2014, 05:01:29 PM

I recently bought £1000 of bitcoins. I had no password on my wallet.

Whilst trying to transfer my wallet to a USB stick, something happened which I don't know exactly what, but my Wallet is now saying I have a password.

I can still view my wallet but I cannot transact because I have no clue of what the password is and you need that to do anything. Sad

Please help... I know I can download programmes to try crack it but I don't know any part of the password
which I've heard makes it almost impossible for it work in any reasonable amount of time

Any help from anyone with advice very welcome!! Sad

there is a chance that your wallet is get encrypted by an empty sting. although it is empty string, does not mean it is space. if you leave it blank. it keep asking. one of my client met the password issue on its dogecoin wallet. if yu did not set password, there is high chance your wallet got encrypted by the empty string. this can be an approach to try. not sure your case.

meanig

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You should post this to the Multibit subforum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=99.0

Someone might have encountered and solved a similar problem.

Coinster

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Try this:

http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/

They specialize in your sort of problem, forgotten password, and are reputable. If you didn't intentionally set a password I'm thinking some keystrokes may have accidentally set one, meaning it shouldn't be long. If it's less than about 8 characters there is a chance it can be found (brute forced) even if you have no idea what it is.

I also echo what Gareth said above.

Gareth Nelson

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Before doing anything else:
1 - stop your wallet software
2 - backup all the related files using normal OS commands
3 - seperately backup the backup you made earlier

You don't want to make things worse by corrupting those files in any form.

Next, get pywallet, run the --restore option on both wallet files, you may get lucky.

Miner687

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No, multibit

meanig

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What wallet were you using? Multibit, Bitcoin-qt, etc?

Sammot

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Which client you used? Bitcoin-qt?

Miner687

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I recently bought £1000 of bitcoins. I had no password on my wallet.

Whilst trying to transfer my wallet to a USB stick, something happened which I don't know exactly what, but my Wallet is now saying I have a password.

I can still view my wallet but I cannot transact because I have no clue of what the password is and you need that to do anything. Sad

Please help... I know I can download programmes to try crack it but I don't know any part of the password
which I've heard makes it almost impossible for it work in any reasonable amount of time

Any help from anyone with advice very welcome!! Sad

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