Topic: come home to see armory all wallets deteled (Read 1890 times)

anyone?

thanks.. also it makes me wonder if it has anything to do with my possible being hacked? Recently another wallet of mine was entirely deposited into a .tor site which was run completely from a USB drive, encrypted, using persistent storage.

transaction is this

https://blockchain.info/tx/f5a4a02add4af3f4fe8ed1b7275347b1fd3658c56237be6b43652cb90c71adfe

also please if anyone has any idea what's going on i can provide full details.

If any developer/coder can please help I promise to hold funds in escrow

Do not PM me. I am making a point of ignoring you. People in this thread have gone out of their way to help you. The questions you ask have been replied to several times in here. Reread the replies if you missed them.

Stop posting in other threads, stop creating other threads. I have been deleting your posts outside of this thread. Keep your request for hand holding to this thread only. Thanks.

In general its better to ignore the suggestions from experienced users and run random code posted by random people instead of using the tools what are made for such cases.
Thats only logical if you already ignore all the backup features offered during the creation of wallets.
In the end you can blame the software when you realize it didn't work.


*this post could contain some sarcasm.

Just FYI, whoever told you that script might be able to help is lying. That python script you have there creates random corruption... and/or deletes random bytes from a file... that isn't going to fix any of your issues... and will probably only make things worse.

just pm'd someone btw if they can help with corrupted files, they are encrypted but if you can un- corrupte ill put btc in escrow or something.

i'm sure they might be but the error log says wrong path or wrong armory wallet.. even though i created this wallet and it's encryption using armory core.I did OFC try that as well as a number of other different things.

There's gotta be a way willing to pay through escrow to make sure the developing team has the funds that it deserves. I've been using armory since .88 same for this one breach to make it stop using it forever/

And as you can see this is clearly a systems error.. i i mean 3 wallets are randomly deleted from an OI issue? I'm a very much laymen but how would this happen?


Oh and I've read this python script helps you find it but how do i do this? I haveno exp in this please help

 #!/usr/bin/env python -u

# Read from stdin, corrupt/remove random bytes, write to standard out.

import optparse
import random
import sys

def main():
  parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage="%prog [options]")
  parser.add_option("--n", dest="n", type="int", default=1,
                    help="how many single-byte errors to introduce")
  parser.add_option("--r", dest="remove", type="int", default=0,
                    help="how many bytes to erase")
  parser.add_option("--verbose", dest="verbose", action="store_true",
                    help="be verbose")
  (options, args) = parser.parse_args()

  data = bytearray(sys.stdin.read())

  for i in range(0, options.n):
    position = random.randrange(0, len(data))
    oldbyte = data[position]
    newbyte = (oldbyte+random.randrange(1,256))%256
    data[position] = newbyte
    if options.verbose:
      print >> sys.stderr, "Replaced byte %d with %d at position %d"%(oldbyte,newbyte,position)

  for i in range(0, options.remove):
    position = random.randrange(0, len(data))
    oldbyte = data[position]
    del data[position]
    if options.verbose:
      print >> sys.stderr, "Deleted byte at position %d"%(position)

  sys.stdout.write(data)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

The platform doesn't matter. The Armory version might make a difference, but none of the wallet code as been changed in any of the latest versions.

Armory doesn't use .dat files. If you are seeing .dat files that are supposedly for armory, those aren't Armory files.

How would you know they aren't corrupted? Do you happen to know the Armory binary file format? Armory uses a binary file format that you wouldn't know whether it was corrupted unless you examine it byte by byte.

Have you tried the Armory wallet recovery tool? It's in the software itself.

That's for wallet.dat files which are for Bitcoin Core only, not Armory.

so it couldn't be the platform? upgrading the client or trying it on another comp wouldn't work? the thing they are clearly marked .dat files for wallets for armory.. if anyone can please help we can sign some agreement saying ill a % of the wallet. They don't seem all the way corrupted can someone please help.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-private-keywalletdat-data-recovery-tool-25091

i've seen is another idea

edit: also there never says files are corrupted just that the wallets themselves are not acceptable wallet files

anyone help plz will be appreciated, dont mind putting out bounties or service fees.. i know there's a way I just read multiple programs including using pythonwallet itself to run a recovery.

also the exact reaosn as to why it won't recover is: Invalid path - or file is not a valid armory wallet?

wtf?

If your wallet files are corrupted and you don't have any backups, there is nothing that anyone can do.

Try using Armory's recover wallet tool and see if it can recover anything.

The wallet files are not text files, and actually contain basically zero readable text except for descriptions and labels. You won't get any information out of the files by opening them in a text editor.

I'm trying to import them but it says it is corrupted or something at startup then when i try to manually import digital copy it won't let me hit continue or go on, for all copies that i saved from recuva.

can developers plz help me? I know there is a way to get my root key from that wallet.

edit: i'm sure these are not watch only cause it doesn't say when i opened used notepad..

also when i try to fix damaged wallet it says they are not valid wallets

I would attempt to import the armory_ziimito_.wallet file first. It should read it in and then you should be able to go into the "wallet properties" and do the backup to get to the root key.

If that file does not work, try the armory_ziimito_backup.wallet.

recovered with Recuva.. and can i do an import in offline mode? Also there are two ziimito wallet files.. one is just normal the other one is ziimito_1.

Is it possible i should upgrade and then try to import these wallet.dat files? They are backups one just says the wallet name the other has backup next to it.. what if these are watch-only as well? How is that possible as i've used this wallet to transfer funds and then they turned to watch only?

If you have them safely on a USB disk, I would make a copy on your PC, then try to import them. If you can open the wallet files, you should be able to go to: "Wallet Properties" -> "Backup this wallet" -> "Make Paper Backup"

It should prompt you for the passphrase, put that in and you should get the paper backup display including the root key for your wallet. For the love of Satoshi... WRITE THIS DOWN!


As an aside, I'm curious to know where you find the original files? What had happened to them? Had they been deleted and you recovered them with Recuva? or where they just moved?

i saved it to USB disk (restored wallets) and am not sure what to do next

edit: ok sorry for this double post/edit but i found the original armory wallet files... should i try to import/restore them using armory or is there some other way i can get the root key from them?

I think that your actions till now decreased the chances of recovery a lot.
On Dataloss you stop all writing to the disk mount  as RO and create a raw image. You work on the raw image from then and don't touch the disk.

How much BTC was in that wallet?

Sorry for the spam, no none of those files exist since those were the 3 wallets deleted the next time i checked armory. Tried that recuva.com software on both this directory: C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Roaming/Armory/ as well as recycling bin and found nothing.

also it's the ZiiNMNto wallet i'm trying to restore.

No, you don't. A watch-only wallet means that there are no private keys whatsoever in that wallet. Your password is useless here as no private keys are generated from your password. Your password is only used to encrypt the private keys, not anything else with them.

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Do any of these three files exist: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Armory\armory_26BzNYf9H_.wallet, C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Armory\armory_2gJKi3aoH_.wallet, C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Armory\armory_2AYDvuXW7_.wallet? If they do, are you able to import them? If you can, what do you see when you do import them?

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Sidenote: please stop spamming other threads about your issue. You already have this thread for it and people are helping you. By constantly asking for help in other threads you are breaking the forum rules.

wait even if the digital backup was watch-only if i have the encryption PW i still have access to private keys right??