I have a couple of bitcoins but my older computer crashed. But I had a backup of my wallet. Months passed and one day I decided to download the official client and sell my Bitcoins. But when I went to bitcoin site I saw that the client was different and very heavy. The site recommend to install Multibit. I got Multibit, but found out that I couldn't import the old wallet.dat, they wanted a different format. So, I'm stuck now.
(I also installed Bitcoin Core today, and it running all day and still is at around 10%).
Any solution?
Can I put the old wallet at the official bitcoin client?
Somewhere I was reading that all you have to do is place the old wallet here:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\Bitcoin
I also found this: blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet
but I'm not sure if it's safe and how it works.
Can somebody please help me?
answer 1: (Q: How to import wallet.dat into Multibit):
was your wallet encrypted or not ?? Have you set up a password for your backup? If yes -
harder :https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228334.0
answer 2: (Q: Can I put the old wallet at the official bitcoin client?) - yes you can just like you are saying. Copy wallet.dat into C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\Bitcoin folder.