Christopher Gurnee

Give this a try in a terminal window: python2.7 -V (that's a capital `V`) Assuming this responds with a version of Python 2.7.x, you can use `python2.7` wherever the Tutorial...

For your specific case, you may want to simply use `%1,5p` which contains all alphanumerics plus: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;?@[\]^_`{|}~ To answer your question though, the (almost*) only character that needs to be...

> most of the passphrase What do you mean by "passphrase"? Do you mean that you your 12-word recovery phrase? If you do mean your 12-word recovery phrase, have you...

> I only have 11 word of the 12 in the passphrase so I can't use the link in my email to recover I may be mistaken, but I though...

You should be able to use seedrecover with your 11 words and either a Bitcoin or Ethereum address. Follow all of the [instructions here](https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/docs/Seedrecover_Quick_Start_Guide.md#installation). If you use a Bitcoin address,...

The UnicodeDecodeError is somewhat of a bug; btcrecover is *supposed* to nicely inform you where to look in the docs to use Unicode characters, but instead exits with that really...

That could be a bug in btcrecover. Could you run this in a command prompt from the same directory where the `wallet.aes.json` file is? python -c "d=open('wallet.aes.json').read().decode('base64');print len(d);print repr(d)" (On...

> I did this with my old wallet and get 256 as the number. The file is indecipherable. A length of just 256 *might* mean that btcrecover wouldn't know how...

> even if it tried the correct password, it wouldn't "work" and just keep going This is exactly the concern, also known as a "false negative". btcrecover works by decrypting...

@MichaelSchra For a wallet created July 9, 2012, btcrecover *should* work correctly as-is. My only concern is that I've never tested it with a wallet created around that time, however...