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Difficulty restoring old BTC. I have wallet.dat
by
Cataclysmic
on 16/09/2017, 21:34:42 UTC
I'm trying to restore some BTC from an old hard drive.

I found the wallet.dat file on that hard drive, installed Bitcoin Core on my new computer, replaced wallet.dat on my new computer with the one from my old hard drive, and now this is what I see:

https://www.screencast.com/t/z2I0kGsvMv

So I can see my transactions in Bitcoin Core now, but I see a balance of 0 BTC.

Questions:

1 - Do I need to wait for the entire ~150 GB blockchain to load onto my computer before I'll see my actual balance?
2 - Is there any way that I can get my BTC balance into a different wallet without waiting for the entire blockchain to load in BTC Core?  I really don't want to download 150 GB!

Thanks in advance.