Background
Some years in the past (2017) I will need to have discovered a method to ‘serialise’ my pockets, as a result of I saved the next in my password supervisor:
- Identify: “Bitcoin pockets”
- Password: (typical generated password)
- Era seed: (BIP39 mnemonic)
- Receiving deal with: (typical bitcoin deal with)
- Notes: (appears like base64 information, about 3000 characters in size)
I vaguely keep in mind having the Bitcoin-Qt consumer put in.
Query
What technique did I exploit to serialise (or export, or back-up) my pockets in 2017?
Further data
What I attempted to date:
- Copied the info to textual content file
- Ran bitcoin-cli importwallet “/path/to/file.txt” (through Bitcoin-Qt’s console). Obtained the error “Solely legacy wallets are supported by this command (code -4)”.
- Decoded the textual content file utilizing
cat /path/to/file.txt > base64 -d > /path/to/file.datand ran bitcoin-cli importwallet “/path/to/file.dat”. Obtained the error “Solely legacy wallets are supported by this command (code -4)”. - In Bitcoin-Qt chosen File, Restore Pockets…, and chosen the .dat file. Obtained “Pockets file verification failed. Didn’t load database path ‘~/Library/Utility Assist/Bitcoin/wallets/Take a look at’. Information is just not in acknowledged format.”
- Ran
file /path/to/file.datand receivedfile.dat: information(I hoped it could be recognized as Berkeley DB, since I learn right here that pockets.dat information are BerkeleyDB database information). - Checked the hyperlinks within the reply to this query concerning the ‘pockets export’ format, nevertheless it appears like that’s only a method to encode a personal key, which might not consequence within the sort of information I’ve saved in my password supervisor.
What I didn’t do but:
- Set up the model of Bitcoin-Qt present in 2017, and try to revive the .dat file.