Quote from: nc50lc on August 10, 2025, 04:30:49 AM

Quote from: SheriffBass on August 09, 2025, 02:43:39 PM

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 than the whole setup combined. (plus there's no available guide)
And I can't find any pre-build wheel for non-ARM Windows and python 3.12/3.13 of it.

I gave up as I couldn't quit use the commands back then, that PC is useless now and the program is mostly corrupt/damaged, the current crypto prices ignited me back up again, so I bought a new PC to start fresh but want to do it right this time. as I'm reading about Pywallet now, there is way too much for me to know about how to download and operate both Python and PYwallet (which I don't) from how to download python to operate for all users as an admin, to dependencies, paths, virtual environment, all programs even found wallets have to be downloaded/ saved in the same directory as python, having to specify the name/path to each wallet to dump keys..... the previous install may have worked but unfortunately I didn't know any of that!! it may come natural to you as a practicing programmer but certainly all overwhelming and extremely tedious to me ( I don't even know what a wheel or non-arm windows are!).....so since I don't want to do the same trial-and-error thing again, I was wondering if someone had an idiot guide ( my level of idiot!!) or can walk me through the most basic details, or just install it on my new PC for me to use on my own even for a fee.