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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Recovering wallet with .dat files (no key phrases)
by
myacre
on 01/01/2022, 20:48:24 UTC
Finished synching but on the drop-down menu I only see the test wallet and not the old wallet.

Here's a step by step on what I did from the beginning, maybe it will help.

1. Run Bitcoin core 2.Uncheck prune storage 3.Create test wallet(which gave me the wallet folder)> Go to bitcoin core data directory>test wallet folder> rename wallet.dat to wallet-test.dat> copy old wallet.dat and paste in test wallet folder 4. Let Bitcoin Core synch 5. Close BTC core and rerun 6. File> Open Wallet which only shows test wallet.

I believe I messed up somewhere along the line but this is the complete breakdown.

Also, will definitely be tipping you lovely humans for all your help. Happy New Years!