Cannot acces my MultiBit HD wallet

[Imrooo]

Good evening,

at first, I wouldn't contact you if it wasn't the last thing I tried. I installed MultiBit a few days ago, written down the safe words, etc. Then, I moved my bitcoins to the new created wallet.

The day after, I couldn't access the wallet. The application required password, and I am certainly sure about the password, though all I got was "The password did not unlock the wallet". So I tried to restore it, written down the words, then the timestamp and nothing worked at all.

Attaching pictures of what I got. Can you help me anyhow? Thank you.

[ivan486]

i have same problem, alway show "The password did not unlock the wallet" event i restore wallet and put new password, how can i do now :( money stuck there

[Imrooo]

I got help directly from MultiBit support in the end. Everything I had to do was downgrade MultiBit to 0.4.1 and restore the wallet once again. Everything is back to normal now.

[ivan486]

i was instal 0.4.1 but after restore got same problem, The password did not unlock the wallet" can you please give me how to contact them for help

[packtrack]

I have the exact same problem and I have been unable to solve it.

I think it had to do with a transaction that for some reason would not confirm. I will continue to try and solve this.

[VTSTech]

Confirmed also in 0.5.1 x64 Windows

I get the following error on attempting to restore in the log.

Tried downgrading to 0.4.1. Didn't help.

{"@timestamp":"2017-06-08T16:13:56.981-04:00","@Version":1,"message":"Failed to restore wallet from seed phrase.","logger_name":"org.multibit.hd.ui.views.wizards.welcome.restore_wallet.RestoreWalletReportPanelView","thread_name":"safe-fixed-restore-wallet-0","level":"ERROR","level_value":40000,"stack_trace":"org.multibit.hd.core.exceptions.EncryptedFileReaderWriterException: Cannot read and decrypt the backup file 'K:\BACKUP\MultiBitHD\mbhd-b57649c3-bbbcead6-ca01449c-2bfff2b7-d43570ea-20170529010034.zip.aes'\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.core.managers.BackupManager.loadZipBackup(BackupManager.java:463) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.ui.views.wizards.welcome.restore_wallet.RestoreWalletReportPanelView.createWalletFromSeedPhrase(RestoreWalletReportPanelView.java:585) [multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.ui.views.wizards.welcome.restore_wallet.RestoreWalletReportPanelView.handleCreateWalletStatus(RestoreWalletReportPanelView.java:411) [multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.ui.views.wizards.welcome.restore_wallet.RestoreWalletReportPanelView.handleRestoreWallet(RestoreWalletReportPanelView.java:310) [multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.ui.views.wizards.welcome.restore_wallet.RestoreWalletReportPanelView.access$000(RestoreWalletReportPanelView.java:62) [multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.ui.views.wizards.welcome.restore_wallet.RestoreWalletReportPanelView$1.run(RestoreWalletReportPanelView.java:173) [multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [na:1.7.0_80]\r\n\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.7.0_80]\r\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [na:1.7.0_80]\r\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.7.0_80]\r\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.7.0_80]\r\nCaused by: org.multibit.hd.core.exceptions.EncryptedFileReaderWriterException: Cannot read and decrypt the backup file 'K:\BACKUP\MultiBitHD\mbhd-b57649c3-bbbcead6-ca01449c-2bfff2b7-d43570ea-20170529010034.zip.aes'\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.core.managers.BackupManager.loadZipBackup(BackupManager.java:514) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.core.managers.BackupManager.loadZipBackup(BackupManager.java:461) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\t... 10 common frames omitted\r\nCaused by: org.bitcoinj.crypto.KeyCrypterException: Could not decrypt: pad block corrupted\r\n\tat org.multibit.commons.crypto.AESUtils.decrypt(AESUtils.java:127) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.hd.core.managers.BackupManager.loadZipBackup(BackupManager.java:498) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\t... 11 common frames omitted\r\nCaused by: org.spongycastle.crypto.InvalidCipherTextException: pad block corrupted\r\n\tat org.spongycastle.crypto.paddings.PKCS7Padding.padCount(PKCS7Padding.java:63) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.spongycastle.crypto.paddings.PaddedBufferedBlockCipher.doFinal(PaddedBufferedBlockCipher.java:287) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\tat org.multibit.commons.crypto.AESUtils.decrypt(AESUtils.java:118) ~[multibit-hd.jar:na]\r\n\t... 12 common frames omitted\r\n"}

I was able to use https://github.com/HardCorePawn/multibit_recovery tool to recover the private keys.

The wallet did unlock/decrypt with the password in recovery tool. But not in either 0.4.1 or 0.5.1 of MultiBitHD Client.

I used the backup 0.5.1 mbhd.wallet.aes to recover. (I had since removed the file to install 0.4.1 and try again with 0.5.1 with no luck)

[ronensingerr]

Download Breadwallet on IOS and enter your wallet words. It saved my BTC.

[frederickmorty]

Whats going on 27 days and no update while our funds are locked? One should be able to recover wallet with file + password, seed words is for lost password/wallet files.

https://github.com/HardCorePawn/multibit_recovery i was able to run but get error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "find_unspent_multibitHD_txes.py", line 256, in wallet = load_wallet(wallet_file, get_password) File "find_unspent_multibitHD_txes.py", line 156, in load_wallet faddr = bitcoin.bin_to_b58check(bitcoin.deserialize_script(out.script_bytes) [2]) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\bitcoin\py2specials.py", line 43, in bin_t o_b58check inp_fmtd = chr(int(magicbyte)) + inp TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

[doge2021]

I have the exact same problem and I have been unable to solve it.

I think it had to do with a transaction that for some reason would not confirm. I will continue to try and solve this.

there is bug in the old multibit wallet: https://btc2doge.com/multibit-hd-wallet-seed-words-not-work/

[doge2021]

i was instal 0.4.1 but after restore got same problem, The password did not unlock the wallet" can you please give me how to contact them for help

there is bug in old multibit wallet: https://btc2doge.com/multibit-hd-wallet-seed-words-not-work/