Quote from: cold_chardonnay on Today at 08:12:37 PM

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 fatal 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

Welcome aboard.

I've never ran into this issue, but I think you'll have to let bitcoin core finish synchronizing before you can upgrade the wallet. Try reinstalling bitcoin, load your wallet, and then let it finish synchronizing. It could take a couple of days or more depending on your system and internet connection.

You can still use a pruned install, you shouldn't have to install the whole blockchain (over 430GB currently.) If your wallet is loaded even the pruned install will include the transactions pertinent to your wallet.