user90731: I have an old laptop that I have bitcoin wallet on. I left the computer alone since early 2015 and when I try to sync the bitcoin wallet, the wallet gets stuck on 180 weeks. the bitcoin wallet sync process just eats way at hard drive space and stays at 180 weeks. I free up over 70 Gb and it still just just eats at hard drive space.

user91149: First of all, backup your wallet.dat even if you are not going to do anything to the wallet.
I don't know if you are open to using other wallets, but you could recover your bitcoin by following these steps:

Unlock your wallet
Use the command dumpprivkey "YOURADDRESS" from the Bitcoin Core console 
Import the private keys on a lightweight wallet such as Electrum (Warning: There was a scam message being shown in Electrum sometime ago)


90731: <p>I have an old laptop that I have bitcoin wallet on. I left the computer alone since early 2015 and when I try to sync the bitcoin wallet, the wallet gets stuck on 180 weeks. the bitcoin wallet sync process just eats way at hard drive space and stays at 180 weeks. I free up over 70 Gb and it still just just eats at hard drive space.</p>
 91149: <p>First of all, backup your wallet.dat even if you are not going to do anything to the wallet.</p>

<p>I don't know if you are open to using other wallets, but you could recover your bitcoin by following these steps:</p>

<ul>
<li>Unlock your wallet</li>
<li><p>Use the command <code>dumpprivkey "YOURADDRESS"</code> from the Bitcoin Core console </p></li>
<li><p>Import the private keys on a lightweight wallet such as <a href="https://electrum.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Electrum</a> (Warning: There was a scam message being shown in Electrum sometime ago)</p></li>
</ul>
