This is a message for developers here. I bought factom on crowdsale, at some point while playing with the previous version of factom wallet I created one more address in adition to one that connected to a 12 word phrase and sent 200 factoids to that address, than the wallet backup file (factoid_wallet_bolt.db) was accidentally deleted so I left only with 12 words phrase address and the 200 factoids were lost. I do have corrupted wallet files that I tried to recover with undelete programs so I am trying to get something meaningful out of them. After lots of failed attempts, here's the last email I got from a factom support guy:
"if I were in your shoes, I would brute force trying to find the private key, if it is there.
write a script which would iterate over each byte, take the next 32 bytes, convert those bytes to a pubkey, then convert it to an FA... address. If there is a match, you have found the private key. If that doesn't work, you can search for the 512 bit seed, and derive several private keys off of that, and check each one of those against your public key.
I'm sorry, I can't write any of this code for you, as I do not have time, but a competent developer can see the opensource I sent you earlier and write this brute forcing code."
If some developer here can make this script I can thank him with some part of recovered factoids. Please PM me if you can.
You should post this on the Slack as well—I think there are more people there, including developers (for Factom and otherwise). Reddit appears to be down atm but you can find the sign-up link in the "Resources for People New to Factom" post. Good luck!
