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Topic: How to tell if a file is a wallet.dat (Read 899 times)

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February 14, 2013, 01:42:05 PM
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Of course it would be called wallet.dat; I don't have the original names of the files! Unfortunately, my wallet is encrypted, which is why I asked if the wallet.dat files begin/end with a certain signature.
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WTF???
February 14, 2013, 12:59:50 PM
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/walletdat-recovery-recover-your-own-lost-bitcoins-22697

That's the post you need.

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If you can use a hex-editor to do a sector-by-sector search/edit on your entire hard drive, then search your entire hard drive for occurrences of the following byte sequence:

01 03 6B 65 79 41 04...........
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February 14, 2013, 12:53:51 PM
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it would be caled:
wallet.dat
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February 14, 2013, 12:38:40 PM
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NaN.
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