What do you mean by "buggy" tools to extract the keys from the wallet.dat? Are they not safe to use?
Is the macbook your only computer? If you have another, you can just install Bitcoin Core and extract the private key, no synchronization needed.Hi, thanks for your advise! I think that should be manageable since there is one more Computer. It is running a Windows system.
"extracting the private key" - do you mean that I have to put the wallet.dat backup from this computer to another and exchange the wallet.dat file with the one in the bitcoin folder?
I just want to be sure that I wont do any mistakes this time
What do you mean by "buggy" tools to extract the keys from the wallet.dat? Are they not safe to use?
Pywallet is okay and it isn't exactly risky. It might be hard to use if you're unfamiliar with it. As long as you keep several backups of wallet.dat, you would be fine and you can easily switch to another backup if you mess one up.
Well I really dont have the "know how" so I guess option one will be my choice.