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Re: I lost my password to an electrum wallet
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o_e_l_e_o
on 01/11/2020, 10:40:16 UTC
Speaking of recovering a forgotten password, I found a tool that might be useful to someone in a similar situation.
https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
This is the best answer, but the original version of btcrecover hasn't been updated in 3 years. There is a fork with ongoing active development, wider wallet support, new features, and better optimization, available here: https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover

For recovering a password to wallet file, follow the instructions here: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#btcrecover-tutorial

These instructions will talk you through building a tokens.txt file with the words in the password you do remember, any numbers, punctuation, substitutions, typos, etc., which the program will then take, generate all possible combinations, and try them automatically on your wallet file.