Its been recommended to me to start a thread for some help recovering an old wallet.dat file.

I had made a post in the Pywallet 2.2 thread and the farthest I got was this error message,

(22, 'Invalid argument -- C:\\Python27\\wallet.dat: unexpected file type or form
at')
ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this
again.

I tried to open this file with Bitcoin core before using pywallet and got a similar "data is not in recognized format" error.

It might be worth mentioning I recovered the file using EaseUS data recovery wizard some time ago.

Thank you for any help.

Im one step closer thank you.

Now getting this error message when running that code

C:\Python27>pywallet.py --dumpwallet --wallet=.\wallet.dat
Warning: 'ecdsa' package is not installed, so you won't be able to sign/verify m
essages but everything else will work fine
(22, 'Invalid argument -- C:\\Python27\\wallet.dat: unexpected file type or form
at')
ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this
again.

I tried to open this file with Bitcoin core before using pywallet and got a similar "data is not in recognized format" error.

Wondering if im SOL

I saw the post that datadir has been removed and im getting that message when i try to follow old guides to dump a wallet.dat file i have.

What would be the up to date command to run to get the contents of this file assuming i have that file and pywallet in the same folder and have a command window open from that directory already.


Error i get when trying to dump wallet

Depreacation
  The --datadir option has been deprecated, now the full path of the wallet file should go to --wallet
  If you're not sure what to do, concatenating the old --datadir content, then a directory separator, then the old --wallet should do the trick
  If not, ask for help in the Pywallet thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028
A mandatory option is missing

|I appreciate any guidance you can provide.