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Re: I have recovered an old wallet.aes.json from Blockchain.info but its a raw key
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on 03/06/2019, 21:37:29 UTC
Take the private key it outputs and enter in Bitcoin Address Base58 Decoder here http://lenschulwitz.com/base58

Enter that output into https://www.bitaddress.org

Copy the Private Key WIF and import into your wallet of choice.
these steps don't make sense to me, specially the part on using the address decoder
you plugged in your "raw base58" private key into "Bitcoin Address Base58 Decoder" to get another form of private key?
what do you mean by raw base58? because WIF is also base58 Huh

Its was 44 characters. Did not begin with a 5 or LK
if it was 44 characters then it would be a private key Base64 (MINI) and can be used directly on bitaddress.org

edit: PK Base64 != PK MINI