new user confused

[turbogiant76]

So My old .pot file has what looks to be a short hash or something that looks like it.  I understand what the pot file does, so I think that means that I solved a hash?  I am brand new to the program so I may not have had it configured to write the password to a file.  I'm just wondering if there is anything I can do with this to get the password.  I tired the --show command which is what I could gather from the docs but it didn't work.  I'm really confused and can't believe I cracked it so quickly so I'm thinking I am mistaken and something else is going on.

I just wanted to ask in case I somehow did get a solution and there is a way to retrieve it.

I know we are not supposed to post hashes but here is the last few characters if that helps with figuring out with what is going on:

(33 characters)1:hash234

[epixoip]

Potfile is in hash:plain format, so the password is "hash234".

To show the password with --show you'd need to supply hashcat with the original hashlist.