Topic: Pywallet 2.2: manage your wallet [Update required] - page 9. (Read 207931 times)

That's perfectly normal (as far as error messages go)... What it means is that it can't find the "main" section within your "wallet.dat" file... ie. the file contents is NOT what it is expecting. It isn't searching for a file named "wallet.dat/main". It's a somewhat confusing error message, but would indicate that your "wallet.dat" is either corrupted or not actually a wallet.dat file.

Help me guys. Look at that error message again - it's trying to open "wallet.dat/main".  I certainly didn't type in the "/main" - the program somehow added that to the default filename.  Make sense?

what is the --other version for PPC (peercoin) and TGC (tigercoin) ?
any source of information

Just to rule it out... What message do you get if you enter an incorrect passphrase? Does it still say "The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct" or do you get something else?

If you get the same message, it might be that your passphrase is actually wrong, and the output from the script is wrong.
If you get a different message (ie. "The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is incorrect" etc), then it's possible that while your passphrase is OK, the encrypted data recovered from the wallet file has become corrupted and the script is unable to decrypt the individual keys.

I have a very old wallet, which I am unable to open. It is password protected, but I know what the password is. Bitcoin Core says Salvage failed.

Booted LiveUSB Ubuntu and installed pywallet.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pywallet$ sudo ./pywallet.py --recover --recov_device /dev/sdc1 --recov_size 1Gio --recov_outputdir /home/ubuntu/Desktop/recover/ Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: 123456

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets. Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities. Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line. Possible passphrase: xxxxxxxx Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery. 0.10 Go read 0.20 Go read 0.30 Go read 0.40 Go read 0.50 Go read 0.60 Go read 0.70 Go read 0.80 Go read 0.90 Go read 1.00 Go read

Read 1.1 Go in 0.7 minutes

Found 1 possible wallets Found 221 possible encrypted keys Found 0 possible unencrypted keys

Possible wallet #1 with passphrase #1

Private keys not decrypted: 221 Trying all the remaining possibilities (221) might take up to 0 minutes. Do you want to test them? (y/n): y

Private keys not decrypted: 221 Try another password, check the size of your partition or seek help The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct

Importing:

The new wallet /home/ubuntu/Desktop/recover//recovered_wallet_1513352751.dat contains the 0 recovered key ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop/pywallet$

So it recognizes the password as correct, but it doesn't decrypt the keys.

Please help.

ill be sure to run dban from now on when i reformat

Pywallet is very old and the wallet.dat file format has changed since Pywallet was last updated (2014).

It looks like the script does not handle some of the new data fields that are now included in the wallet.dat file. It should theoretically be possible to modify the script to either handle or ignore the unknown fields.

If you just want to dump the file and don't care about making a "valid" wallet.dat... you can edit the pywallet.py file:

Change Line #2111 from:
to:


Then on Line #2502, change:
to:


The script will still spit out a whole heap of garbage like this: