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Re: Bitcoin qt fail
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shorena
on 07/02/2016, 21:49:43 UTC
Sorry for the spam, im just really worried because 100 euro's is not nothing for me. Apologies.

They are not lost, calm down.

I will download electrum now and try to copy wallet.dat

You cant just copy the wallet.dat into any other software.

I did not exported the private key yet. I used the commant and typed my password but what do you need to do next?
It says this:
walletpassphrase "passphrase" timeout

Stores the wallet decryption key in memory for 'timeout' seconds.
This is needed prior to performing transactions related to private keys such as sending bitcoins

Arguments:
1. "passphrase" (string, required) The wallet passphrase
2. timeout (numeric, required) The time to keep the decryption key in seconds.

Note:
Issuing the walletpassphrase command while the wallet is already unlocked will set a new unlock
time that overrides the old one.

Examples:

unlock the wallet for 60 seconds
> bitcoin-cli walletpassphrase "my pass phrase" 60

It means you are doing it wrong. I will make an example. Lets assume your password is "passw0rd" and your bitcoin address is "1LKwwbZZ3XtTznqTKZVnDgj8M59r2QACnv".

Open core, goto the console[1] and enter:

walletpassphrase passw0rd 120
quickly followed by:

dumpprivkey 1LKwwbZZ3XtTznqTKZVnDgj8M59r2QACnv

it will show something like this "5JC3aq4x63vzX4MMt1CKTymUeadZqFtoWAy9YyyzLrLiDv7CyAQ" - do not share this with anyone. (this key is just one I created for this example and is not used otherwise)



Now to import that key into electrum, do:

File -> New/Restore -> (select a name, e.g. temp wallet it does not really matter) -> select "Restore a wallet or import keys" and "Standard wallet" and confirm with next -> enter the private key like this:



and confirm with next.

Set a new password, wait a little bit til its synced (green light lower right). You should now be able to see a balance. If not let us know.


[1] Help -> Debug Window -> Console