Quote from: Stalesamy on Today at 03:56:06 PM

Hello, I was given a wallet.dat file from a friend to try and recover anything on it. I am using pywallet. I have no idea what any of the public addresses are associated with this wallet. This wallet was also supposedly made before wallet encryption was mandatory.

When I run python pywallet.py --dumpwallet --wallet=wallet.dat > ~/wallet.dat.json

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pywallet.py", line 2316, in parse_wallet
item_callback(type, d)
File "pywallet.py", line 2716, in item_callback
json_db[type] = 'unsupported'
File "pywallet.py", line 111, in __setitem__
return super(Bdict, self).__setitem__(bytes_to_str(k), v)
File "pywallet.py", line 90, in bytes_to_str
return k.decode()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

any ideas?

Could you try findwallet and see if it still works?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5071775.0

Please install it first, then disconnect & run it offline. It should extract and dump the private keys in a text file in the same folder.