Content of wallet.dat - Bounty - page 2.

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: science on August 09, 2014, 12:37:07 PM

lucky did u ever look at the link i post before?? there u can find the answer

science

So I've already ran Photorec (this is second time around actually - 6 hours left). Do I have to run it again so that the wallet.dat signature file can be included in the recovery? I was under the impression that maybe they'd be in the 1mil files I got on the first run, just perhaps a .txt format....

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: grue on August 09, 2014, 12:38:19 PM

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 12:36:48 PM

Thanks! But I have about 20 different coins... I guess I'll have to try and match which key goes to what wallet?

import every private key to every wallet. you can import keys using RPC or command line so it shouldn't be too tedious.

Holy crap - didn't know this. Man you guys are going to take my bitchange, lol. But it's cool

Just so you guys know... I'm going to try everything I can obviously. You guys gave me lots of direction here... so you'll end of splitting the bounty.

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: Newar on August 09, 2014, 12:39:32 PM

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 12:33:39 PM

Thanks... but I don't even know my addresses.

Your post history does (only had a quick look):
16K6t4BtQwhbeTBaRrocCuptESyKcXTcuZ
1BUJ92LbERYLEPxfaxcRJECm5rXYasvsxE

Nice detective work

But those are from my online wallet... This is a new system I built a couple of months ago to start to start hosting pools so I had to download the client.

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: science on August 09, 2014, 12:02:45 PM

have a look here ....

http://blog.cyplo.net/2012/04/01/bitcoin-wallet-recovery-photorec/

science

Holy smokes! So this will actually rename them to wallet.dats for me... and I can then use Newar's suggestion to peer inside the files to see addresses/labels maybe? Do wallet.dats have the coin name mentioned in them? that could help.

So to use this, it looks like I have to install fidentify? Can I assume that the wallet file extension was also located in the /usr/share/misc/magic directory as well?

Perhaps I should've mentioned that after I copied all files to my external drive, I reinstalled unbuntu... don't ask me why I didn't just take the damn hard drive and confirm the files were there before doing that. Coulda, woulda, shoulda doesn't help me now, it was an oversight, I was tired as hell. Anyhoo, I guess that's why Testdisk couldn't help me and I had to use Photorec.

Newar

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https://gliph.me/hUF

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 12:33:39 PM

Thanks... but I don't even know my addresses.

Your post history does (only had a quick look):
16K6t4BtQwhbeTBaRrocCuptESyKcXTcuZ
1BUJ92LbERYLEPxfaxcRJECm5rXYasvsxE

grue

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Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 12:36:48 PM

Thanks! But I have about 20 different coins... I guess I'll have to try and match which key goes to what wallet?

import every private key to every wallet. you can import keys using RPC or command line so it shouldn't be too tedious.

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: science on August 09, 2014, 12:37:07 PM

lucky did u ever look at the link i post before?? there u can find the answer

science

I was just about to respond to you

I see the link but haven't read it yet. Thanks for providing it

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: Newar on August 09, 2014, 12:08:49 PM

I looked at an encrypted wallet using medit and the addresses and labels of addresses at least are there in plain text.

Thanks! I'll check this out once I find the files.

science

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lucky did u ever look at the link i post before?? there u can find the answer

science

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:57:17 AM

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:55:31 AM

Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:52:47 AM

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:50:56 AM

Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:48:27 AM

Try this : https://github.com/pilate/keyhunter

FaSan

Excellent! So the output would be the balance and I can just pluck the keys that have balances?

No this software scan all sectors in your hdd and recovery only the privatekeys. No balances.

FaSan

Oh, ok. Forgive me... not much of a techie. But once I get the private keys, then what? Fingers crossed that all of my important wallet.dats are recoverable - aren't the private keys in that file? Guess I'm not sure how to use this script.

Simple start it and wait. After take the list of privatekeys founded and re-import on another wallet. If you lucky, you take back all your bitcoins.

FaSan

Thanks! But I have about 20 different coins... I guess I'll have to try and match which key goes to what wallet?

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: 0xAli on August 09, 2014, 11:58:16 AM

If you open the wallet.dat in notepad the generic line would be like this:
name"ADDRESS here

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:45:07 AM

I'm sure I'll have hundreds of wallet.dats, with only one being the one I need.

Is it a vanilla wallet or encrypted?

If it's plain normal wallet.dat then the old wallet can access the new coins. Not sure about encrypted wallets or wallets for tools other than bitcoinQT

Edit:

Other strings in my wallet:
minversion
defaultkey
version
setting
addrIncoming
minversion
defaultkey
version
setting
addrIncoming

I have some not encrypted, but of course my bitcoins are. Are you able to provide a string? Grep's going to pull every document that has those words... that's why I need a string of text.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on August 09, 2014, 12:01:12 PM

Try searching anything related to this:

Quote

The original Bitcoin client wallet file is named wallet.dat and contains[1]:

keypairs for each of your addresses
transactions done from/to your addresses
user preferences
default key
reserve keys
accounts
a version number
Key pool
Since 0.3.21: information about the current best chain, to be able to rescan automatically when restoring from a backup.

Kindly,
MZ

Thanks... but I don't even know my addresses.

Newar

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https://gliph.me/hUF

I looked at an encrypted wallet using medit and the addresses and labels of addresses at least are there in plain text.

science

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have a look here ....

http://blog.cyplo.net/2012/04/01/bitcoin-wallet-recovery-photorec/

science

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I prefer Zakir over Muhammed when mentioning me!

Try searching anything related to this:

Quote

The original Bitcoin client wallet file is named wallet.dat and contains[1]:

keypairs for each of your addresses
transactions done from/to your addresses
user preferences
default key
reserve keys
accounts
a version number
Key pool
Since 0.3.21: information about the current best chain, to be able to rescan automatically when restoring from a backup.

Kindly,
MZ

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If you open the wallet.dat in notepad the generic line would be like this:
name"ADDRESS here

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:45:07 AM

I'm sure I'll have hundreds of wallet.dats, with only one being the one I need.

Is it a vanilla wallet or encrypted?

If it's plain normal wallet.dat then the old wallet can access the new coins. Not sure about encrypted wallets or wallets for tools other than bitcoinQT

Edit:

Other strings in my wallet:
minversion
defaultkey
version
setting
addrIncoming
minversion
defaultkey
version
setting
addrIncoming

FaSan

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Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:55:31 AM

Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:52:47 AM

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:50:56 AM

Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:48:27 AM

Try this : https://github.com/pilate/keyhunter

FaSan

Excellent! So the output would be the balance and I can just pluck the keys that have balances?

No this software scan all sectors in your hdd and recovery only the privatekeys. No balances.

FaSan

Oh, ok. Forgive me... not much of a techie. But once I get the private keys, then what? Fingers crossed that all of my important wallet.dats are recoverable - aren't the private keys in that file? Guess I'm not sure how to use this script.

Simple start it and wait. After take the list of privatekeys founded and re-import on another wallet. If you lucky, you take back all your bitcoins.

FaSan

Lucky Cris

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Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:52:47 AM

Quote from: Lucky Cris on August 09, 2014, 11:50:56 AM

Quote from: FaSan on August 09, 2014, 11:48:27 AM

Try this : https://github.com/pilate/keyhunter

FaSan

Excellent! So the output would be the balance and I can just pluck the keys that have balances?

No this software scan all sectors in your hdd and recovery only the privatekeys. No balances.

FaSan

Oh, ok. Forgive me... not much of a techie. But once I get the private keys, then what? Fingers crossed that all of my important wallet.dats are recoverable - aren't the private keys in that file? Guess I'm not sure how to use this script.

FaSan

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