Wallet.DAT UTF-16 BE Encoding Chinese Characters

LoyceV

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Quote from: foundmykey on November 18, 2024, 06:45:20 PM

No. I have not opened it or placed it in the Bitcoin Core directory yet.
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What should I do?

You should stop opening weird topics and do this:

Quote from: achow101 on November 18, 2024, 06:26:24 PM

Have you tried opening/restoring a copy of it in Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Core is the only software that can tell you whether the wallet.dat is valid.

foundmykey

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Quote from: achow101 on November 18, 2024, 06:26:24 PM

Are you opening the file in a text editor like notepad? If so, that's not going to give you anything useful. The wallet.dat file is not a text file and contains lots of binary data that will appear as gibberish in a text editor.

Have you tried opening/restoring a copy of it in Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Core is the only software that can tell you whether the wallet.dat is valid.

Yes. I opened it in notepad. I also opened a different old old wallet file on my andriod device and it's all there and legible.

No. I have not opened it or placed it in the Bitcoin Core directory yet. I was reading on how to use the recovery of the file but the Chinese characters threw me off (I have too many old wallet files and concerned about placing more than one wallet in the directory at a time and whether it will corrupt bitcoin core or not).

I also have other old wallet files that are behaving similarly. I cannot remember if these were encrypted or not, but they appear to be?

What should I do?

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Are you opening the file in a text editor like notepad? If so, that's not going to give you anything useful. The wallet.dat file is not a text file and contains lots of binary data that will appear as gibberish in a text editor.

Have you tried opening/restoring a copy of it in Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Core is the only software that can tell you whether the wallet.dat is valid.

foundmykey

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Hello.

I have recovered an old wallet.dat file that has UTF-16 BE encoding that opens in Chinese characters in windows 11.

What can I do to fix this and import my wallet?

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