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Passphrase works in Bitcoin QT, but does not in Bitcoin Core

Passphrase works in Bitcoin QT, but does not in Bitcoin Core I found an usb stick with a wallet.dat. There is also an old notebook with Bitcoin Wallet v.8.6-beta on it. Unfortunately I can't sync it on my old notebook and therefore I am not able to send BTC to another wallet. I then installed Bitcoin Core on my new PC and put the old wallet.dat in the directory. The bitcoin showed up in the Bitcoin Core Wallet on my new PC; BUT when I tried to send them it says "passphrase is incorrect". I then doublechecked my passphrase using "change passphrase"-feature on the Bitcoin Wallet on the old notebook and it worked, meaning the passphrase must be correct! I could even do a transaction and put the passphrase (BUT as you know, because it is not synced - the network will not accept the transaction...) In other forums they recommended using Electrum instead to import wallet.dat. This did not work for me.... I am not expirenced with bitcoin and IT in general.... So, ...