What format is that this pockets saved in?

Background

Some years in the past (2017) I should have discovered a option to ‘serialise’ my pockets, as a result of I saved the next in my password supervisor:

  • Title: “Bitcoin pockets”
  • Password: (typical generated password)
  • Era seed: (BIP39 mnemonic)
  • Receiving handle: (typical bitcoin handle)
  • Notes: (seems to be like base64 knowledge, about 3000 characters in size)

I vaguely bear in mind having the Bitcoin-Qt shopper put in.

Query

What methodology did I take advantage of to serialise (or export, or back-up) my pockets in 2017?

Further data

What I attempted to date:

  • Copied the information to textual content file
  • Ran bitcoin-cli importwallet “/path/to/file.txt” (through Bitcoin-Qt’s console). Acquired the error “Solely legacy wallets are supported by this command (code -4)”.
  • Decoded the textual content file utilizing cat /path/to/file.txt > base64 -d > /path/to/file.dat and ran bitcoin-cli importwallet “/path/to/file.dat”. Acquired the error “Solely legacy wallets are supported by this command (code -4)”.
  • In Bitcoin-Qt chosen File, Restore Pockets…, and chosen the .dat file. Acquired “Pockets file verification failed. Did not load database path ‘~/Library/Utility Help/Bitcoin/wallets/Check’. Information is just not in acknowledged format.”
  • Ran file /path/to/file.dat and obtained file.dat: knowledge (I hoped it could be recognized as Berkeley DB, since I learn right here that pockets.dat recordsdata are BerkeleyDB database recordsdata).
  • Checked the hyperlinks within the reply to this query in regards to the ‘pockets export’ format, nevertheless it seems to be like that’s only a option to encode a personal key, which might not end result within the type of knowledge I’ve saved in my password supervisor.

What I didn’t do but:

  • Set up the model of Bitcoin-Qt present in 2017, and try to revive the .dat file.

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