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Hello Guys,

I used to receive on BTC-E,
Then downloaded Bitcoin Core..
While it was Syncing I pressed on receive money and copied the Address then sent a payment from my BTC-E as i wanted to transfer everything to the Bitcoin Core and start using (Paying/Receiving) from it without using BTC-E website..

But after it used 35GB of storage it asked for more BUT i don't have more storage, until that time it was Saying 45 Weeks later, BUT nothing from the money i transferred was reached to it... so i uninstalled it.

And now I'm back to use BTC-E BUT the money i sent is gone....

Where are they and how i can find them?
Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated AND bTw isn't that money but it's @ the end ( Money ) =)

Thanks for Reading.

Bitcoin Core was still syncing. If you look up the address on blockchain.info, you should see that it has had Bitcoin sent to it. You won't see the Bitcoin in your wallet until the client finishes syncing. The blockchain is almost 40 GB of data, so you will need a larger hard drive if it says that it needs more storage at only 35 GB. The 45 weeks thing means that your wallet's latest block is from 45 weeks ago.

If you don't want to use Bitcoin core, you can export the private key to your address and import that into another wallet. You will be able to spend the Bitcoin from there.

Ok would you please tell me how to export the private key to my address?
I really need that which better than to get a drive and install again the program wait syncing ... etc :3

Open up Bitcoin Core, and click Help > debug window.
Open the console tab.
Type with <Your Bitcoin Address> being the address you received the Bitcoin with.
Copy the string and go to whatever wallet you want and import it there. I recommend using Multibit.

If your wallet has a password, before typing "dumpprivkey", type this:
where <Your wallet passphrase> is the passphrase to unlock your wallet. You will have 600 seconds to complete "dumpprivkey"
After you are done, type

Why did you choose yo use this wallet? With Electrum you start right away, without downloading the whole blockchain.

How exactly did you "uninstall" Bitcoin Core?

If you deleted the wallet.dat file and you don't have a backup and can't recover the deleted file, then the bitcoins are gone forever.

If you still have a copy of the wallet.dat file, or if you can recover the deleted file, then you'll still be able to recover the bitcoins.

The part I bolded is what worries me.  Hopefully you (or the uninstaller program) did not delete the associated files, especially wallet.dat.  If you did, you have no way to recover that BTC.  It'll sit in that address taunting you.

To what extent is that statement true? I don't think that deleting files through software is considered permanent deletion.

Aside of that, I believe that uninstalling bitcoin core leaves wallet.dat in pace.

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That's why, this question:

I think he's referring to the way most OSs "delete" files. It's marked as "deleted", but "still there". At least as long as the OS doesn't overwrite that sector. File recovery software might help with that.

What I'm trying to say is that deleting files in no good way to permanently erase data from a hard drive. It's not necessarily OS specific too. Probably I didn't phrase that correctly, I guess I could provide some examples so people can understand what I'm talking about easily.

Deleted files can be recovered:
http://www.howtogeek.com/125521/htg-explains-why-deleted-files-can-be-recovered-and-how-you-can-prevent-it/

Google trashes hard drives if they want to permanently delete data:
https://youtu.be/XZmGGAbHqa0?t=223

Securely erasing data from a hard drive would involve overwriting:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/261702/how_to_securely_erase_your_hard_drive.html

35GB!! wtf! Last time I had it, it was about 5gb and that was a pain so I stopped using a full node.
OP, you should have seriously taken some advise before using any wallet.

Coming back to the point, as far as I know uninstall does not remove wallet.dat
So its going to be there somewhere. Take advise from some trusted member (DannyHamilton) in recovering the keys from the file.
If the file is there, the coins are there. Just make sure you do not do anything more on the computer before recovering the keys.

Deleting files and recovering it solely depends upon what you are doing after a deletion . For example , if you are pasting any file in a folder where a file was deleted then you must be sure that the file that got deleted would be overwritten and the file that would be recovered will be any other file . I recommend blockchain always and I am using it .

Check if the wallet.dat still exists in your user data folder. If it does, you'll need to make use of the core client to export and import it to a different wallet.