Multibit HD wallet - cannot open or restore, I have password and secret words I can't open either of my 2 Multibit HD wallets. It says "Password did not unlock the wallet" on both. I have tried restoring from all the possible backups, my passwords are correct and my secret words successfully verify each time. On clicking "next" I get:-

1) TICK. Backup location created
2) CROSS. Wallet created.
3) TICK. Security certificates
4) CROSS. Wallet is synchronising. Please wait until complete.

The finish button is grey, the wallet seems to do nothing else - it never synchs. I am 3 coin worth $6k down at the moment. I am also trying to restore my wallet in electrum, but because I don't know how to select the wallet location from Multibit HD I am struggling. Repeat, I have all correct info required for backup. Also, I have my .zip.aes files - I stored them on the root of C: I can't seem to open them with AES Decrypt, tried using my 12 word seed chain and the password on the wallets. Plz help, its all our company bitcoin sales for the past 6 months...

Yes, I have gone through other forum posts, but am a little out of my depth and can't understand why with all the right backup info, I get no restoration. I will stick to Electrum in future, but had no problems previously with Multibit standard , the upgrade has screwed me good and proper!

MJT
MultiBit HD bugs

There are several issues:


A correct password doesn't unlock the wallet (#753 on github).
The restore process doesn't work if there's already a wallet in the directory that MHD uses for the restore (the "CROSS. Wallet created.").


In my experience even a successful restore into a fresh new location won't help with the password problem, on any MHD version.

Coin recovery

It is only sensible to move the coins into a different wallet. This can be done by importing the private keys for the addresses that hold your coins.

You'll need the wallet recovery seed, i.e. the set of words the wallet gave you when you created it.

Getting the private keys


Go to https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/, scroll down to 'Offline usage', create an offline copy and open it in browser.
Input your seed in 'BIP39 Mnemonic'.
Under 'Derivation Path', select 'BIP32'.
For 'Client' select 'Multibit HD'.
The 'Derived Addresses' list now has your wallet's usable addresses and their private keys. Figure out which addresses hold the coins (e.g. look up on blockchain.info). Copy those private keys.
Some coins may be on "change addresses", which have different derivation path:


For 'Client' select 'Custom derivation path'
For 'BIP32 Derivation Path' input "m/0'/1"
Repeat step 5. with the updated list of derived addresses.



Importing private keys

Pick another wallet software and consult its documentation about private keys import.

For instance, Electrum allows to create a seedless wallet that can do this. That should allow to control the coins again and send them into another wallet (use the seedless wallet only temporarily).