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Re: Issue with Bitcoin Core 11.8. Cant get into my wallet.
by
ranochigo
on 15/08/2018, 03:27:15 UTC
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 Smiley
Yup. Install Bitcoin Core, run it once and shut down and go to the data directory (usually is at %appdata%/Bitcoin). Just replace the wallet.dat and reopen Core. You can just use the commands to dump the private key out.

Don't import it into Electrum preferably. Sweep it and you can just store the seed as a backup.