old electrum default_wallet file - Help

anonbtcnoob23

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Quote from: BitMaxz on April 24, 2023, 11:54:18 AM

Do you have the original file of this default_wallet file because if you don't have a backup copy of this wallet file sometimes it becomes corrupted if you tried to open the old version of the wallet file to the latest version of Electrum?

Make sure that you have a backup first before trying to recover and import it to Electrum. Or else It would end up corrupted to the point where there's no way to recover it.

Based on the error it seems Electrum is trying to decode the wallet but failed.
Would you mind completing the error and post it again here I would like to try to search it on Google if there is someone who has a similar issue.

here
its a huge one
https://pastebin.com/WnNKqkpW

BitMaxz

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Block halving is coming.

Do you have the original file of this default_wallet file because if you don't have a backup copy of this wallet file sometimes it becomes corrupted if you tried to open the old version of the wallet file to the latest version of Electrum?

Make sure that you have a backup first before trying to recover and import it to Electrum. Or else It would end up corrupted to the point where there's no way to recover it.

Based on the error it seems Electrum is trying to decode the wallet but failed.
Would you mind completing the error and post it again here I would like to try to search it on Google if there is someone who has a similar issue.

OmegaStarScream

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I'm guessing you don't have your seed phrase? Since want to know if the wallet file is encrypted, try to open it using notepad.

If you see random characters that you don't understand -> file is encrypted.

If you see your addresses and everything, scroll down to "xpriv". If its value starts with "xpriv" you're good, if it's anything else, it also means your private keys are encrypted.

I couldn't find much about the error you mentioned, but assuming this is a compatibility issue, you should be able to read the wallet using an older version.

anonbtcnoob23

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I'm getting this error:
Cannot read file
StorageReadWriteError(UnicodeDecodeError('utf-8', b'\x00\x89.......... bunch of "xnumbers"

My guess this is old electrum wallet, size is 41kb, date is 30.01.2017.
What can I do to access the wallet? I have no idea if it has a password

I can reward a person if you grant me access here

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