<p>Is the wallet encrypted or not ?
If encrypted, then you will have some automatically generated exports of your private keys in the $HOME/MultiBit/multibit-data/key-backup directory. They are encrypted with your wallet password.</p>

<p>You can create a new wallet and import this file using Tools | Import private key.</p>

<p>There are also rolling backups (essentially old versions of your wallet) in the directory rolling-backup that you can open using File | Open wallet</p>

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2015-06-16T14:15:30.510Z
Not encrypted. Trying to imported some of the unencrypted wallet backups using the Tools Import method I will let you know how it goes. And vote you up
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2015-06-16T13:41:11.403Z
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<p>I just recieved a payment sent me bitcoins on my old multibit 0.5.18 wallet. I opened it up and didn't see it, so I refreshed the blockchain. When I did this my wallet crashed. When I started it back up I got a message saying could not load the wallet. I went to the directory $HOME/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-unenc-backup to load a backup and got the same message. </p>

<p>Is their a way I can get the private keys out of the multibit.wallet file so I can build an unencrypted.key file. So I can send the bitcoins to my new Multibit HD wallet?</p>

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2015-06-16T13:57:43.327Z
@Christopher Gurnee is the expert on this. He maintains btcrecover
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Recover multibit.wallet data
Ben P. Dorsi-Todaro
# Recover multibit.wallet data

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-06-16)

I just recieved a payment sent me bitcoins on my old multibit 0.5.18 wallet. I opened it up and didn't see it, so I refreshed the blockchain. When I did this my wallet crashed. When I started it back up I got a message saying could not load the wallet. I went to the directory $HOME/MultiBit/multibit-data/wallet-unenc-backup to load a backup and got the same message.

Is their a way I can get the private keys out of the multibit.wallet file so I can build an unencrypted.key file. So I can send the bitcoins to my new Multibit HD wallet?

**Tags:** wallet, multibit

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: @Christopher Gurnee is the expert on this. He maintains btcrecover  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-06-16. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Is the wallet encrypted or not ?
If encrypted, then you will have some automatically generated exports of your private keys in the $HOME/MultiBit/multibit-data/key-backup directory. They are encrypted with your wallet password.

You can create a new wallet and import this file using Tools | Import private key.

There are also rolling backups (essentially old versions of your wallet) in the directory rolling-backup that you can open using File | Open wallet

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Not encrypted. Trying to imported some of the unencrypted wallet backups using the Tools Import method I will let you know how it goes. And vote you up  

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