Trying to recover old wallet.dat

[SkivvyNivvy]

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Describe the issue

I got my old wallet.dat from an old hard drive from 2017. Whenever I try to have doge coin core use it, the wallet gets overwritten and has a new creation date, a balance of 0, and no transaction history. Is there a solution to this, is there a way to dump my keys from windows cmd? If it were encrypted, shouldn't prompt the passphrase (not sure if it is but I'm pretty sure I have the pass phrase)

Can you reliably reproduce the issue?

If so, please list the steps to reproduce below:

1. Open folder of dogecoin core.
2. Delete wallet.dat and paste old wallet.dat into it.
3. Run dogecoin core.

Expected behaviour

Tell us what should happen
It should load up the wallet

Actual behaviour

Tell us what happens instead
I replaces the wallet with a fresh wallet.

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What version of Dogecoin Core are you using?

List the version number/commit ID, and if it is an official binary, self compiled or a distribution package such as PPA.
1.14.2

Machine specs:

• OS: Windows
• CPU: Intel i5 4690k
• RAM: 16g
• Disk size: 2 tb
• Disk Type (HD/SDD): HD

Any extra information that might be useful in the debugging process.

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[Coinomatron]

Not sure if it's being overwritten, if your client isn't synced. First create new addresses and look them up in an explorer to see if they have balance. If they do, dump the keys in the debug window and import in another wallet. If it is being overwritten, you can also import the old wallet while the client is running, from debug window (importwallet path/to/wallet.dat). Look up which addresses have balance, dump the priv keys and import into another wallet like coinomi.

[dannydeezy]

Hi, I think you can use this script to extract your addresses and private keys:
https://github.com/akx/walletool

[rnicoll]

Is there anything in the debug.log file to indicate what's happening? It will need to replay the blocks to verify what balance is in the wallet, that's potentially the issue, though?

Have a look at https://coinguides.org/rescan-reindex-wallet/ and the -rescan option.

[etherx-dev]

This happens to my wallet too, I realised that the key pool like 2 keys that are on a different order appended to it and as a result the ones that had been in line are ignored and turn up corrupted

[ReverseControl]

@SkivvyNivvy @etherx-dev Were you able to solve your issue?

[etherx-dev]

@SkivvyNivvy @etherx-dev Were you able to solve your issue?

No not yet