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Re: Py Wallet recover lost/deleted bitcoin wallets Without using a recovery service
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nc50lc
on 10/08/2025, 04:30:49 UTC
anyone has/ willing to make a detailed operation tutorial including step by step installing and using Python, Py wallet, dependencies, paths, commands for finding, extracting, dumping wallets & prvkeys.......?
Have you lost your working pywallet setup in 2019?
It's been 6years so that must be the case.

Anyways, if you can't find the old post containing the guides by HCP that you've followed, it's still saved in your post history,
Here (actual guide in the posts before this): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5161349.msg52313697#msg52313697

Quote from: SheriffBass
Is PyWallet by Jack-Jack the best way to scan old hard drives to recover lost/ deleted bitcoin wallets Without using a recovery service? any easier windows-based alternatives?
This would have been perfect for you since it's updated with full python3 support: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5547957.0
But its dependency "bsddb3" will be more tedious to compile in Windows (even harder the the whole setup combined)
And I can't find any pre-build wheel for Windows and python 3.12/3.13 of it.