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I created the keys file sometime around 2016-2017. It doesn't have a password. It was originally named "wallet".

I renamed it to "monerowallet.keys".

I open the latest official Windows GUI wallet, click restore wallet from keys file.

It asks for a password, I leave it blank.

The error says "couldn't open wallet: internal error: failed to deserialize keys buffer".

I don't have the mnemonic phrase. All I have is the keys file.

Should I try using the Linux wallet? It might give me the same error. I have Linux but never use it, are there instructions?

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I renamed it to "monerowallet.keys"

A wallet has two files. One without an extension (which has things likes settings, labels etc), and another file that is named the same but with the extension .keys, which has the actual keys in it.

For example:

MyWallet
MyWallet.keys

So if you renamed MyWallet to MyWallet.keys (i.e. mv MyWallet MyWallet.keys), you'd overwrite your keys file!

If you had the original .keys file or seed phrase, you could restore your wallet. Without either, you have no way to restore.

It was originally named "wallet". I renamed it to "monerowallet.keys".

So rename it back, and hope you never deleted your original wallet.keys.

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