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Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: offline wallet recovery
by
onnz423
on 17/01/2017, 22:28:17 UTC
in my paper backup I have the 12 words for recovering root key and chain code. The problem is I don't know if this backup is from the online or the offline (is it possible?)(is that a problem??). The folder i found with .wallet and .watchonly.wallet and a paper backup is on my personal computer, so is accessible. The offline wallet is in Ubuntu, but since I don't remember the user password i can't access to the wallet. Besides, it's home directory is encrypted...

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask me again if I'm not clear with my explanations.



If you have the seed on paper, install the electrum from here: https://electrum.org/

Then open electrum, press standard wallet, then "i already have a seed" enter your 12 word seed, press options and tick BIP39, then press continue and it asks for optional password. Then voila. You have the bitcoins usable again and you can send them to any address where you want to Smiley