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Not able to import used presale wallet #182
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than thats probably it ;) -> wrong password. It works for my one and others.. |
@frozeman No. If I try to re-import using Kraken's pre-sale import tool, my password is correct, and it shows I have 0.07 Ether left. If however I import the same file with same password, Mist gave me "wrong password" message. |
This is the second user reporting a similar issue. I'll implement a "show password" feature on the next version, so we can be sure it's not a password typing error.. |
@TT1943 unless there's some personal information, would you mind sweeping the money out of that account and then providing us the wallet and password to help us debug it? |
Yep, got the same bug |
Louis we are looking for a presale wallet giving that error to be able to debug it. Have you been able to empty it? If so, would you volunteer your file?
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@alexvandesande sorry, the password I am using is personal, so might not proper to share it with you even if I emptify it. May be you could try to compare your code with what is written by Kraken to see whether there is any difference. The Kraken importing tool is open source too. |
@TT1943 mist works completely different than the kraken tool and has other layers in between which could cause the issue. The only real way to try it is when i can test it on my system myself. |
Sorry, It has a non random password. Thanks LP
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@alexvandesande @frozeman I have the exact same issue described. I'd b happy to donate my presale wallet to science ;-) It's (almost) empty and the password is generated (has all sorts of special characters in it). Maybe that's the issue? Where do you like me to send the file to? |
fabian at ethdev.com please thank you! |
I have the same issue. My password is generated by Safari/Keychain Access consisted of uppercase and lowercase letters, hyphens and numbers. |
I have the same issue. Has the issue been resolved yet? |
I (and another friend who reported me) had also a problem importing the crowd sale file (wrong password). Using OSX 10.9.5. Tried with 3 different presale files. Using kryptokite wallet it worked than luckily. Please fix that urgently! It's really a shocking experience! |
I'm getting this problem too, can't import presale wallet into mist due to wrong password error, but I know the password is correct because I can import the presale wallet into geth no trouble. I'm on 64 bit Linux Mint 17 with kernel 3.13. |
I just noticed the comment above about passwords containing "$", my failing password has a $ in it too... |
Likewise. I just spent the morning freaking out. After using, https://github.com/ryepdx/pyethrecover I found that my password is in fact correct, despite Mist telling me otherwise. |
@frozeman Could it be that somehow pasting the contents of the clipboard is not quite working right in Mist? I was using a password manager to copy my password to the clipboard and then paste it into the password field. |
I have the same issue, i will now try kraken to get my presale wallet in there, hopefully it will work there |
Same issue for me. I checked my password using |
If you can use the command line then you can import your presale using geth as this is likely a Mist issue. Follow the instructions at ethereum.org/cli and ethereum.org/ether Sent from my iPhone
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@alexvandesande: I really would expect that Ethereum devs gives higher priority to that issues! It does not give a good impression to the projects quality and reputation to react after 3 weeks to such an urgent issue by referring to the command line tools. |
Can you try the latest release? https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/tag/0.5.2 |
Nope same result with 0.5.2 unfortunately :-( |
Is anyone getting the "your computers time is out of sync" error when updating from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2? |
Never mind. I fixed my clock and now it working fine. Thanks |
Can we have a new release built with the updated geth in it please? |
This change may affect other things and the go team is looking into this. Development cycles until release take a bit longer as some of us would like, but thats necessary to ensure we don't break other things. If you need to import the presale wallet, you can always use the command line options: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Command-Line-Options#accounts |
Hey team - just letting you know that I hit this issue when importing my presale wallets today. No issues importing with geth though. Recognise there may be some complexity in fixing this completely in the GUI.. but anything that can be done to make it a little less heart-stopping for users would be great - even if it's blocking imports into Mist and sending users to geth when a special character is entered. Best of luck rectifying! e: To provide some further information: |
Same problem here with 0.5.2 running on Linux. Password has special characters ")". 100% sure the password was correct (copy and paste). I was able to import via |
Mist 0.6.0 I created an account with geth, send some ether on it, trying to move them with Mist give me wrong password. Trying to unlock the account from geth command line works so the password is correct |
The wallet is already at 0.7.1, this issue has been addressed on more recent versions. |
Guys I'm using Mac OS X 10.11.4 , Mist 0.7.4 , I've tried to upload de pre-sale file and still get the yellow "wrong password" message. My passwords contains "#" . any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
Have you seen above that using the command line seems to work in this situation? And there are other wallet solutions available that allow you to access your pre-sale wallet? |
Please have a look over here for a summury: #669 |
moved here to keep things tidy (from @yrrv1980):
You might want to try using geth to check the password (see #669 or above as @misterdna pointed out):
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Hi Guys, thanks for the help!!.
Macintosh:~ usr$ geth wallet import Json-file I'm 100% sure I'm typing the password correctly. Any thoughts?.. |
@yrrv1980 Sorry about the late reply. Did you resolve the issue in the end? Importing from the command-line should work without fail if your password is correct. |
@uwefassnacht sorry for hijacking this thread a bit - if you wouldn't mind donating a copy to a (different) implementation that we're trying to sort out a particular bug here - we'd appreciate it. tomasz (at) zerado (dot) com |
@qdotme you can use this test presale wallet. |
I'm just curious, how many here still can't open their presale wallet? |
@onepremise I still can't access my ethereum presale wallet @qdotme that's odd, the ethereum wallet file I have from the 2014 presale looks nothing like https://github.com/luclu/ethereum-keyfile-recognizer/blob/master/test/keyfiles-valid-instances.json Mine is in this format: {"encseed": ... No nested maps, just that one flat one, 5 key/value string pairs. EDIT: the "presale" key does match that with the exception of not having the "bkp" key in the test reference file, versus in an actual wallet. |
@rplevy I have the same format with my pre-sale wallet. Have had no luck importing it, and pretty much given up. I get anxiety attempting the import of JSON file, knowing how much is in it, and not being able to access it. I'll keep chipping at it though lol @onepremise Yes, still issues for me. |
I tried to import my presale wallet recently and I thought I would encounter issues as I had used special characters in my password that have been mentioned here. Initially tried importing into Parity Wallet 1.7 by navigating to the following in its GUI Accounts > Account > Presale Wallet, but it gave me error
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Hi all. Did you manage to recover your funds from presale wallets? @uwefassnacht, I'm one of the current maintainers of Mist. Are you still willing to share your presale wallet so we can further investigate this password issue? if so, please email me: ev [at] ethereum [dot] org |
Fix for me: Use the json file to extract the private key. Then import the private key. For converting I used
geth account import privekey-file.txt credits: |
I managed to extract mine, used the service at https://keychainx.io |
I am used to import part of my presale ethers using Kraken's presale importing tool. There is 0.07 Ether left in my presale file. Trying to import this wallet into Mist gives me "wrong password" error.
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