Quote from: NotATether on Today at 04:47:23 PM

Quote from: SheriffBass on Today at 03:11:57 PM

then since I'm pretty bad with computers, don't trust myself with proper installation, operation of PY wallet and can't run simple commands as dump wallet or privkeys….. I ran Electrum to sweep keys from the Py wallet generated/ found wallets which gave me a page full of numbers multiple lines of zeros and a bunch of numbers on the last 3 lines. looked it up and referred me to adding p2wpkh IN front of the key but its a whole page full of numbers and I can't tell which is the key!!
[I didn’t run Pywallet dump keys as I don’t know how! I as assuming the Pywallet would acknowledge the presence of a wallet and keys and display them]

pywallet with the --dumpwallet switch writes the private keys to a JSON file which is a kind of file that has a structure like this:

{
"key": "value",
"key2": [1, 2, 3],
"key3": {
"subkey": "anothervalue"
}
}

and so on. If your file doesn't look like this, then it was created with another pywallet command.

In your case, look for a key called "keys", and it's going to have a list of key-values {} in them that have "address" and "sec" subkeys. The "sec" key has your private key inside and it begins with a "H","J","K" or "L" (or any of these with a "5" at the beginning). This is what you import into Electrum.

"addr" is the address for the private key. Look at the characters at the beginning ("1", "3", or "bc1") and add the correct prefix in front of the private key to import it into Electrum (p2pkh: , p2sh: , or p2wpkh: respectively).

If you don't see "sec" keys next to "addr" keys then it means that particular private key is encrypted and you need to run "pywallet --dumpwallet --passphrase yourpasswordhere" to decrypt it.
[/ I’ll been to learn the command for Pywallet dump keys and dump wallet to proceed! ] just opening the wallet file from Electrum did show an address on the bottom starting with bc1 and asked to add p2wphk to the key but I can’t figure out what the key is from all these numbers in the file!!