hi , can some of you people with more knowledge than me help me with a template for a btcrecover or a tokens-auto.txt file.
The only person that can really help create the tokens file is YOU. The whole point of this file is that it should contain fragments that were likely to have been used in the password. So, if you always used a password like:
ThisIsMySecretPassword12345
But you're not sure if it had 12345, or 54321, or 67890 etc, but you're sure it had 5 numbers on the end... you would create a token file like:
ThisIsMySecretPassword
%5d
This would try ALL combinations of "ThisIsMySecretPassword" + 5 digit numbers from 00000 to 99999
Honestly, the best resource for this is the btcrecover tutorial here:
https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#the-token-fileIt explains all the options with examples of how you put together a tokens file. If you're unsure of what your password was to begin with... and you're just attempting to bruteforce your password... you can probably just use a tokens file that consists of just %p... with however long you think your password was... ie. for a password of up to 10 characters:
%1,10p
Note that this will generate literally MILLIONS of passwords... and is the reason why you really need to have a relatively good idea of what your password was likely to be, so you can narrow it down using tokens.