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How is it going? Assuming it's a BIP 39 seed phrase, and you remember the words (and the passphrase, if you have one), then it should be easy to open it in any wallet software But I guess you're hoping to keep this away from any not-entirely-trusted software

Thanks for checking in, it was an unconventional recovery - I was restoring a lightning node (on-chain and channel backups). My seed phrase was correct, but the lightning node software could not find the old UTXOs, despite doing multiple indexes/ restores. So I thought, "no problem, I'll just throw the seed into sparrow and move the funds from there". But for some reason the seeds that Lightning Node generates are non BIP39 compliant (invalid checksum). Which I thought I could still choose to bypass in sparrow but didn't see that option any more. I had to install "chantools" cli tool to plug my non BIP39 need into to generate a private key (xprv...), then use that to pull the wallet into sparrow. Recovered the funds and then moved them all to a new lightning node wallet 😅 The whole things took a couple of hours and multiple times I had assumed I was using an old seed and had lost the correct one.