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I am trying to follow these steps to migrate my wallet to an HD wallet. But it failed, the debug log has errors like this:

EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
DeriveNewSeed: AddKeyPubKey failed
bitcoin in AppInit()

After some quick search, I found the #issue14422 of bitcoin is related to this issue, which says the upgradewallet option does not work when the wallet is encrypted. The issue is still open and no solution is given. So how can I upgrade my wallet to the HD wallet?

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The answer you linked explains how to migrate without using upgradewallet in the section "Versions of Bitcoin Core prior to 0.17`. You will need to follow those steps instead.

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  • I am using the latest v0.18.1, is it safe to follow these pre-0.17 steps?
    – TRX
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 2:43
  • Yes it is safe.
    – Ava Chow ♦
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 4:34
  • I see, one more question, can I reduce the transaction fee to 0? And can I import my old BTC address to the new wallet so I can continue use it?
    – TRX
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 12:00
  • No, you cannot reduce the transaction fee to 0. Yes, you can import your old private keys into the new wallet to continue to use them. However this is not recommended as it is address reuse (which is not recommended for privacy reasons).
    – Ava Chow ♦
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 14:53
  • Thanks. My old address is published on the web for a while, so I want to monitor it in case of any income coming in the future.
    – TRX
    Commented Oct 15, 2019 at 2:08

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