UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

Open muradkhalimov opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Hi everyone

Just tried running this, getting this error please help(I have Python 3.12 though...):

Starting btcrecover 1.13.0-Cryptoguide on Python 3.8.9 64-bit, 21-bit unicodes, 64-bit ints Traceback (most recent call last): File "btcrecover.py", line 38, in btcrpass.parse_arguments(sys.argv[1:]) File "/Users/Murad/Desktop/btcrecover-master/btcrecover/btcrpass.py", line 5806, in parse_arguments tokenlist_file = open_or_use(args.tokenlist, "r", kwds.get("tokenlist"), File "/Users/Murad/Desktop/btcrecover-master/btcrecover/btcrpass.py", line 5460, in open_or_use if file.read(5) == br"{\rtf": File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/encodings/utf_8_sig.py", line 69, in _buffer_decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

Mar 03 '24 02:03 muradkhalimov

Can you provide a tokenlist which demonstrates this issue?

Mar 04 '24 01:03 3rdIteration