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Help needed recovering old wallet from bitcoin qt (around 2016)
by
cold_chardonnay
on 08/01/2022, 20:12:37 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,DireWolfM14 (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
Hi folks

I'm new to the forum. So hi ;-)
I coincidentally found my old bitcoin wallet.dat from around 2016 on one of my backup discs.
By the time I just played around with bitcoin and was not really into anything^^
Anyway, now I try to access that wallet, but I am running in several issues.
I am working an a mac wit bitcoin core 22.0.0 and this is what happens:

I start bitcoin core and the wallet is actually loading, so I can see the balance (not much btw).
If I quit BT Core the software throws this message:
Code:
A fetal error occurred. Bitcoin no longer continue safely and will quit

If I try to decrypt it to use upgradewallet, I get a berkley db error... Idk it seems like it is related to the version jump I made.

Is there anybody out there who may be able to help?

Thanks in advance and best regards

cc