I bought and stashed a few XEM last year, can't remember exactly when. I have name.adb and name.wlt, as well as the password I used when creating the wallet. I do not have the private key. When I run the client, it sees the wallet, but when I type the password it tells me:
"Oops!
ERROR 123
NIS: ADDRESS BOOK COULD NOT BE READ"
Is all lost?
Your wallet seems to be fine. Your address book not so.
You can try a few things.
1) You just needs to change the name of file. If it was more than one word and he used the back up wallet feature, it saved in the wrong format. Renaming the file will fix it. (but I forget the trick. I think it involves put a "_" in between the words) (Please make a back up copy to play with when doing things like this)
2) He can wait until the next Lightwallet comes out and import into it without the address book as long as it was a wallet with only one account.
3) If you know the password. Remove the two wallets from the NCC folder. Create a new wallet with the same name and same password. Deleted that wallet but leave the address book file in the NCC folder. Now paste in the original and good wallet. If it was just a problem with the address book file, then you will be able to log into your wallet just having lost all your address book contents only.
If any of these work, please also back up the private key.
Here is a tutorial about locating wallet files. http://blog.nem.io/how-to-find-export-or-delete-your-wallet-and-address-book-file/
Thankyou, but none of these worked. I don't have a lot of spare time right now to dedicate to this, but I'll try again in the future and hope that perhaps that lightwallet works.
I'm not the only person with this prob btw, I've received a PM from someone with the same issue.
Fingers crossed for the future, don't want to lose those 45,000 coins!
Will report back when I have more free time. Thanks.
Edit: I do not think my files are corrupted. I had them backed up on 4 usb drives. None work, all were taken from the original, working files created by the wallet; not copies of potentially corrupted files. Also, 2nd April 2015 is the date on which these files were created. I'd have been using the most recent wallet on that date to create these files. Just including this info incase it's of any obvious consequence or might give any clues as to why the latest wallet doesn't seem to like my files. Thanks.
