Topic: Overwritten new wallet with coins with old backup (Read 1456 times)
I know this was a long time ago. But I was in the same situation as you. I kept those files and recently found a way to recover it. If you read this and still want to try, let me know
I realize it might be lost for ever and i can live with that. (Never invest more than you can afford to lose - though it's a fuck up)
Tried what is on that link with the same result, password not accepted.
I'm willing to offer 50% of the content of the address to anyone able to help me, content is a bit more than 1BTC
Tried what is on that link with the same result, password not accepted.
I'm willing to offer 50% of the content of the address to anyone able to help me, content is a bit more than 1BTC
Unless you're really lucky and find a way to recover from that backup file, you've probably just lost the money.
That happens to people all the time when they deal with money while they better shouldn't :-(
In hindsight, what you should have done (I know this comes too late):
- make a backup of your wallet as quickly as possible (such a backup works even if you receive coins later, because depending on the type of wallet key generation it covers a moderate amount of future keys, or all future keys for HD wallets)
- don't handle money while being drunk, drowsy, sleepy etc. unless you know perfectly well what you do and can take the risk of mishandling it (such as paying your bill after an evening at a bar.)
Onkel Paul
Have you looked at http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/29586/how-do-i-extract-my-private-keys-from-a-protobuf-wallet already? It won't help if you can't find the password that you used for the wallet, but might help you to spot mistakes that you might have made during your attempts at recovery. I don't use that wallet app, so I don't have first-hand experience with it.
That happens to people all the time when they deal with money while they better shouldn't :-(
In hindsight, what you should have done (I know this comes too late):
- make a backup of your wallet as quickly as possible (such a backup works even if you receive coins later, because depending on the type of wallet key generation it covers a moderate amount of future keys, or all future keys for HD wallets)
- don't handle money while being drunk, drowsy, sleepy etc. unless you know perfectly well what you do and can take the risk of mishandling it (such as paying your bill after an evening at a bar.)
Onkel Paul
Have you looked at http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/29586/how-do-i-extract-my-private-keys-from-a-protobuf-wallet already? It won't help if you can't find the password that you used for the wallet, but might help you to spot mistakes that you might have made during your attempts at recovery. I don't use that wallet app, so I don't have first-hand experience with it.
So... I was in a somewhat drunken mode the other night and managed to restore my wallet after recently purchasing some BTC. The new address which received the BTC was effectively gone.
I did some digging and after a few e-mails I was told to look for "key-backup-protobuf" in the app folder. I found the file and the date and time modified correlates well with the time of the transaction. So I started to google for solutions to import the private keys to my android wallet, how to decrypt the file to access the private key for export to another wallet. Basically any way i can figure out to recover my coins.
Through ES file explorer i opened the file as "restore wallet" and I was prompted to provide a password. I tried my usual passwords, I can restore every backup I got back to 2014, but "key-backup-protobuf" is unaffected by any of the passwords.
I'm not really sure where to go from here and would really apreciate some help
Edit: Schildbach app
I did some digging and after a few e-mails I was told to look for "key-backup-protobuf" in the app folder. I found the file and the date and time modified correlates well with the time of the transaction. So I started to google for solutions to import the private keys to my android wallet, how to decrypt the file to access the private key for export to another wallet. Basically any way i can figure out to recover my coins.
Through ES file explorer i opened the file as "restore wallet" and I was prompted to provide a password. I tried my usual passwords, I can restore every backup I got back to 2014, but "key-backup-protobuf" is unaffected by any of the passwords.
I'm not really sure where to go from here and would really apreciate some help
Edit: Schildbach app
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