Thank you. It's amazing how few users are willing to help newbies in cryptocurrencies. But your message helped. It looks like I may have indeed backed up my ETH wallet information. I do have the UTC file...
Now if only I knew what I need to do with it. I simply cannot run the Etherium client on computer. It takes days and days and never downloads enough of the blockchain to become usable to me. That's how I got into trouble in the first place.
So now that I might indeed have the UTC file with the keystore, is there anything I can do with it to get my Ethereum back other than trying to download the entire Etherium client again?
Thanks!
Topic: how do I find the ETH private key on my computer (Read 495 times)
I was using the ETC client and couldn't get it to work (it would never download sufficient blockchain--even over several days--to become functional). I finally gave up. Since then I have changed my computer quite a bit and deleted all kinds of stuff. I may have deleted the ETH keystore.
How can I simply search my entire hard-drive for any possible traces of the keystore file? What might that file or a backup of that file be called?
I still have the passsword.
How can I simply search my entire hard-drive for any possible traces of the keystore file? What might that file or a backup of that file be called?
I still have the passsword.
I have them in my "keystore" folder. so if you search for that will be OK.
file looks something like this: UTC--2016-05-23T23-56-42.897862900Z--f791cb5f22f72a77633a646101l5k6f40jwddddd and there are 3 files there.
I was using the ETC client and couldn't get it to work (it would never download sufficient blockchain--even over several days--to become functional). I finally gave up. Since then I have changed my computer quite a bit and deleted all kinds of stuff. I may have deleted the ETH keystore.
How can I simply search my entire hard-drive for any possible traces of the keystore file? What might that file or a backup of that file be called?
I still have the passsword.
How can I simply search my entire hard-drive for any possible traces of the keystore file? What might that file or a backup of that file be called?
I still have the passsword.
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