Hello everyone,
I’ve been having trouble accessing my wallet on Daedalus Mainnet 6.5. The nodes would get stuck, and I couldn’t access the wallet. Recently, when I opened Daedalus, it prompted me to update to the latest version. After updating, Daedalus no longer runs on my macOS High Sierra, and I can’t update my Mac anymore.
I tried installing Daedalus Mainnet on my new Mac, but I can’t restore my wallet from the old Mac since I don’t have my wallet passwords. It seems I’ve lost access to my wallet.
Is there a way to downgrade Daedalus on my High Sierra Mac, or am I missing the correct backup folder to transfer my wallet to the new Mac?
Do you mean the spending password or the seed phrase or both?
Downgrading Daedalus won’t work. It needs one of the latest versions to even be able to communicate with the rest of the Cardano network.
It should be Library/Application\ Support/Daedalus\ Mainnet/wallets I think. Maybe safer to replace the whole Library/Application\ Support/Daedalus\ Mainnet while Daedalus is not running and then restart it with all the data from the old version.
This only helps you if you have the spending password.
If you have the seed phrase, it is far easier to just restore/import in a light wallet than to get this behemoth to work.
In general, it is not a good idea to continue to use a wallet where you don’t have the seed phrase, not only in Cardano, anywhere in crypto.
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I had this wallet just as an experiment and I had automatic login and only 10$ on it so I didn’t care enough to save any seed phrase.
On my old Mac I still have the original Daedalus Mainnet that won’t run anymore because of the new update but it should contain the saved password and wallet.
On my new Mac I tried restoring the wallet using the secret key that should be contained in the Daedalus folder but no secret key file is found.
Is there any other solution? Should I just give up?
The secret key file solution is only for very old Daedalus versions.
I think that this should work:
Move that folder from the old to the new computer (after installing Daedalus on the new one, but without it running). When you start it afterwards, it should hopefully pick up from where the old Daedalus was.