Error when decrypting wallet?

Staking & Delegation Operate a Stake Pool
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Hello all,

I wanted to update the metadata of my pool as I made a small mistake with the metadata. To change the metadata I have to decrypt my wallet. However, when I attempt to decrypt the wallet I get the following:

ERROR: failed to decrypt /opt/cardano/cnode/priv/wallet/Ideal_Pool/stake.skey.gpg
ERROR: failed to decrypt /opt/cardano/cnode/priv/wallet/Ideal_Pool/payment.skey.gpg

There is no other code or hint as to how I can solve this. Any ideas?

Help is much appreciated!

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Hello,

cd /opt/cardano/cnode/priv/wallet/Ideal_Pool/
are the keys there?

Cheers,

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Guess I overlooked something. They are not.

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Perhaps u used the backup option from cntools,

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Any idea on how to fix this? I am kind of at a loss here.

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Check if u have any folder… cntools_bkp_offline_xx.tar.gpg or something like this on ur server

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I don’t seem to get a hit. I also can’t recall using the wallet backup function. I did import a 24-word wallet from Daedalus in the beginning. I encrypted that one using cntools. Now it doesn’t seem to want to decrypt.

Thanks for the quick help and responses by the way. I appreciate it a lot!

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I know the files are deleted when u use bkp option…

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if not maybe u downloaded from the server?

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There is nothing there. I never used the backup function. I downloaded the cold keys. However, there are no stake.skey and payment.skey between the downloads I made.

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Then I don’t know, perhaps u deleted by mistake? Check recycle bin, etc

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Apologies. I found them on the server. stake.skey.gpg and payment.skey.gpg. No clue why I couldn’t find them with the search engine (but I could manually).

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However, what do I do with them now? (sorry for the questions)

I tried restoring the .gpg files. That doesn’t seem to work.

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Where are located? Did u moved on priv/wallet/Ideal_Pool/ ?

If yes, go to cntools - wallet - decrypt and type the password… it the password is not correct u will reveive a failed message

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Thanks! Now it tells me I don’t have ADA in the wallet (while I do as I can see it in Daedalus). This is going well haha.

It tells me the wallet is delegated to the pool tho. Weird…

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U can go to cntools - wallet - show ; copy the address and paste it on cardanoscan.io it has funds?

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It states that there is 0 balance, but that there is an amount staked. Guess the ADA is locked in staking to the pool?

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Yea, I checked my address and indeed it shows 0 balance but it shows x amount staked.

Cheers,

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Guess I’ll need to add some more to unlock it and be able to modify the pool metadata.

Thanks for all the help!

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What is this used for will this help me?