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Title: Wallet with bitcoins in disappeared from Multibit! how to recover? (RECOVERED) Post by: matt608 on April 22, 2014, 10:09:13 AM I have been keeping a stash of bitcoins in multibit with a very strong password and it's worked fine for the last year but today when I opened Multibit my wallets where gone and the balance was 0. I've tried following the troubleshooting advice but I've been unsuccessful.
I followed these instructions" "Where MultiBit stores your data MultiBit stores user specific data such as logs and the default multibit.wallet in a "user data directory". This directory can be worked out as follows: Check the the very top of the "Messages" tab for a message like "The user data directory is '/Users/jim/Library/Application Support/MultiBit'" Navigate to the MultiBit installation directory and check for a file called "multibit.properties". This file is not there. These are the only files I can find there authors.txt configuration.md COPYING multibit-exe.jar multibit.checkpoints readme.txt release_notes.txt I then attempted the technical approach but failed to find anything. I used these commands in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder hidden files did appear but nothing containing "multibit" or "wallet" I tried hitting hitting Command+Shift+Period but nothing happened. I tried using Terminal using "ls -a" command and various filed appeared but nothing containing "multibit" or "wallet". I have an external HD which I used to make backups, or so I thought, I just plug it in and let time machine do its thing every so often, but if I try the same process on there nothing comes up either. The Multibit icon is there in the backed up applications folder but if I open it it's empty too and none of the searches reveal anything. Please help! Title: Re: Wallet with bitcoins in disappeared from Multibit! how to recover? Post by: matt608 on April 22, 2014, 10:27:36 AM I just tried looking for the user data directory in the application support section where the 'view-messages' in multibit says it should be and it's not there (nor in the external HD application support section). Don't know if that's of any relevance.
Title: Re: Wallet with bitcoins in disappeared from Multibit! how to recover? Post by: matt608 on April 22, 2014, 11:41:52 AM Update:
I restarted my computer and found some wallet files in the Application Support folder (that wasn't there before). Importing wallets now. Title: Re: Wallet with bitcoins in disappeared from Multibit! how to recover? Post by: matt608 on April 22, 2014, 11:47:46 AM SUCCESS!
Title: Re: Wallet with bitcoins in disappeared from Multibit! how to recover? (RECOVERED) Post by: Gabrie on April 22, 2014, 09:05:59 PM Your post helped my recovery my lost BTC too. By looking in the debug logs I discovered on what date I made the transaction and on what computer. I could now retrieve a functional backup. Thanks!
Title: Re: Wallet with bitcoins in disappeared from Multibit! how to recover? (RECOVERED) Post by: matt608 on April 23, 2014, 10:10:50 AM Your post helped my recovery my lost BTC too. By looking in the debug logs I discovered on what date I made the transaction and on what computer. I could now retrieve a functional backup. Thanks! Glad to hear! :) |