So I've already ran Photorec (this is second time around actually - 6 hours left). Do I have to run it again so that the wallet.dat signature file can be included in the recovery? I was under the impression that maybe they'd be in the 1mil files I got on the first run, just perhaps a .txt format....
Didn't you get a backup in the external drive? then just run (assuming you are on ubuntu now) grep -RH 'defaultkey' EXTERNAL_DRIVE Against your backed up files, and it will get the wallets for you no matter what their name/extension is. (And put the real path of the external drive instead of EXTERNAL_DRIVE) Ah! Yes, Photorec saved all of my copied files over to my external drive. But because they're a default file signature type I was asking whether the wallet files were recovered to begin with. It looks like you have to add a custom signature prior to running Photorec so the files can be included in the recovery: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Add_your_own_extension_to_PhotoRec |
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okay okay i understand where you guys are coming from, in the skype logs it shows his username, which is mystery.lsx, all i know is 1) thats his skype 2) he is a 19 year old male
also i think he stopped using that skype. Sorry for coming off snobby, just didnt want anything to happen since he has my address. Anything else you guys would like to see?
No need to apologize... you don't know what you don't know  What's this secret forum... and what's his username there? Someone from this forum might be able to determine if he's a member here. |
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Speak up guys and be somebody and don't be low hanging fruit for the coin scammers / cloners LOL
Don't exclude us gals  |
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lucky did u ever look at the link i post before?? there u can find the answer
science
So I've already ran Photorec (this is second time around actually - 6 hours left). Do I have to run it again so that the wallet.dat signature file can be included in the recovery? I was under the impression that maybe they'd be in the 1mil files I got on the first run, just perhaps a .txt format.... |
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Thanks! But I have about 20 different coins... I guess I'll have to try and match which key goes to what wallet?
import every private key to every wallet. you can import keys using RPC or command line so it shouldn't be too tedious. Holy crap - didn't know this. Man you guys are going to take my bitchange, lol. But it's cool  Just so you guys know... I'm going to try everything I can obviously. You guys gave me lots of direction here... so you'll end of splitting the bounty. |
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Since this is under "Scam Accusations" who is it that scammed you? It would be nice to know what guy to avoid, even though it was on a "secret forum".
yeah it got moved to here, i purposely tried to avoid it since the scammer wasnt on this forum but i dont wanna give out any details even though i have his skype and such... not that type of person haha hope you understand! if it was someone on bitcointalk i most definitely would have but il respect his privacy haha What? let's see if I got this right: You're respecting the privacy of a thief who stole from you  Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, this is just an excuse to beg for more coins. What's your youtube channel? What's the transaction ID? You're good with PS and computers... take a screenshot of the forum convo, it's not hard to redact info so we can't identify the secret forum. I'm calling you out OP - provide proof or else you'll be the one considered to be scamming. ~ Has anyone confirmed this is a 16 year old? Skimmed through OP's post history... can't say I even buy that. wow dude really? okay fine here: my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/technictransaction ID: b4f33b84209336d015421daed621a1b910cb653f0e806cc47aa768dd27520b3d https://i.imgur.com/xrE7h7B.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/xrE7h7B.pngwhat you wanna see my microsft transript to while im at it? lol is that enough to suite you Chris? Don't get smart with me, lil man. You're the one who's protecting a phantom scammer. So I asked you to prove this took place, that's all. And that chat log btw, is completely useless - no date, so we can't prove it wasn't done yesterday? I'll take looksie at the other stuff you posted - so I'm not done yet. well ou dont know how it feels? i get scammed and as if thats not bad enough im accused of being a scammer myself? what else do you want from me? how can i prove im not the scammer? the skype chat doesnt have a date becuase skype doesnt show it! i cant help that! also the reason i dont wanna give up his skype username even though i already did now is because he had my address and my name... Okay, ok. But look at this from our perspective... All we see is you trying to protect a scammer's privacy. Here in this community, we lay it out buddy. What we don't want is for this scammer to get away with scamming someone else. Does that make sense? And this secret forum where you met him... I'm sure people here are familiar with it. Hell, he could be a member of this forum, but we don't know because you won't give us that info. And if he is a member of this forum - WE WANT TO KNOW. You never know... if he's found out, he might give you his back - especially if he's someone who has an established rep. |
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Thanks... but I don't even know my addresses.
Your post history does (only had a quick look): 16K6t4BtQwhbeTBaRrocCuptESyKcXTcuZ 1BUJ92LbERYLEPxfaxcRJECm5rXYasvsxE Nice detective work But those are from my online wallet... This is a new system I built a couple of months ago to start to start hosting pools so I had to download the client. |
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Holy smokes! So this will actually rename them to wallet.dats for me... and I can then use Newar's suggestion to peer inside the files to see addresses/labels maybe? Do wallet.dats have the coin name mentioned in them? that could help. So to use this, it looks like I have to install fidentify? Can I assume that the wallet file extension was also located in the /usr/share/misc/magic directory as well? Perhaps I should've mentioned that after I copied all files to my external drive, I reinstalled unbuntu... don't ask me why I didn't just take the damn hard drive and confirm the files were there before doing that. Coulda, woulda, shoulda doesn't help me now, it was an oversight, I was tired as hell. Anyhoo, I guess that's why Testdisk couldn't help me and I had to use Photorec. |
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lucky did u ever look at the link i post before?? there u can find the answer
science
I was just about to respond to you I see the link but haven't read it yet. Thanks for providing it |
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I looked at an encrypted wallet using medit and the addresses and labels of addresses at least are there in plain text.
Thanks! I'll check this out once I find the files. |
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Excellent! So the output would be the balance and I can just pluck the keys that have balances? No this software scan all sectors in your hdd and recovery only the privatekeys. No balances. FaSan Oh, ok. Forgive me... not much of a techie. But once I get the private keys, then what? Fingers crossed that all of my important wallet.dats are recoverable - aren't the private keys in that file? Guess I'm not sure how to use this script. Simple start it and wait. After take the list of privatekeys founded and re-import on another wallet. If you lucky, you take back all your bitcoins. FaSan Thanks! But I have about 20 different coins... I guess I'll have to try and match which key goes to what wallet? |
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If you open the wallet.dat in notepad the generic line would be like this: name"ADDRESS here I'm sure I'll have hundreds of wallet.dats, with only one being the one I need.
Is it a vanilla wallet or encrypted? If it's plain normal wallet.dat then the old wallet can access the new coins. Not sure about encrypted wallets or wallets for tools other than bitcoinQT Edit: Other strings in my wallet: minversion defaultkey version setting addrIncoming minversion defaultkey version setting addrIncoming I have some not encrypted, but of course my bitcoins are. Are you able to provide a string? Grep's going to pull every document that has those words... that's why I need a string of text. |
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Try searching anything related to this: The original Bitcoin client wallet file is named wallet.dat and contains[1]:
keypairs for each of your addresses
transactions done from/to your addresses
user preferences
default key
reserve keys
accounts
a version number
Key pool
Since 0.3.21: information about the current best chain, to be able to rescan automatically when restoring from a backup.
Kindly, MZ Thanks... but I don't even know my addresses. |
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Since this is under "Scam Accusations" who is it that scammed you? It would be nice to know what guy to avoid, even though it was on a "secret forum".
yeah it got moved to here, i purposely tried to avoid it since the scammer wasnt on this forum but i dont wanna give out any details even though i have his skype and such... not that type of person haha hope you understand! if it was someone on bitcointalk i most definitely would have but il respect his privacy haha What? let's see if I got this right: You're respecting the privacy of a thief who stole from you Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, this is just an excuse to beg for more coins. What's your youtube channel? What's the transaction ID? You're good with PS and computers... take a screenshot of the forum convo, it's not hard to redact info so we can't identify the secret forum. I'm calling you out OP - provide proof or else you'll be the one considered to be scamming. ~ Has anyone confirmed this is a 16 year old? Skimmed through OP's post history... can't say I even buy that. wow dude really? okay fine here: my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/technictransaction ID: b4f33b84209336d015421daed621a1b910cb653f0e806cc47aa768dd27520b3d https://i.imgur.com/xrE7h7B.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/xrE7h7B.pngwhat you wanna see my microsft transript to while im at it? lol is that enough to suite you Chris? Don't get smart with me, lil man. You're the one who's protecting a phantom scammer. So I asked you to prove this took place, that's all. And that chat log btw, is completely useless - no date, so we can't prove it wasn't done yesterday? I'll take looksie at the other stuff you posted - so I'm not done yet. |
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Excellent! So the output would be the balance and I can just pluck the keys that have balances? No this software scan all sectors in your hdd and recovery only the privatekeys. No balances. FaSan Oh, ok. Forgive me... not much of a techie. But once I get the private keys, then what? Fingers crossed that all of my important wallet.dats are recoverable - aren't the private keys in that file? Guess I'm not sure how to use this script. |
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Excellent! So the output would be the balance and I can just pluck the keys that have balances? |
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I need some help...
Long story short - lost all data on my hard drive and my external back drive.
I ran Photorec and recovered over 1 million files from hard drive, and if any of you has ever had to do that (so sorry)... you know the files are recovered with a generic name and most extensions are changed to txt.
Anyhoo - to locate wallets in the abyss, I can search the content of the files (grep recursive), but I don't have a freakin clue what's in a wallet.dat; never tried to open one.
That said - does anyone have some generic line of text from a wallet.dat that I can use to query a mil+ freakin txt files? I'm sure it's going to recover wallet.dat from backups, the trash, and even temp directories. I'm sure I'll have hundreds of wallet.dats, with only one being the one I need. So wondering... once I locate these files (fingers crossed), is there a way to identify the coin they belong to or date it was last updated or something?
Someone please help!
About the bounty - If you hadn't guessed by now my coins are on this hard drive. But I do have a lil bitchange in an exchange wallet that I'm willing to share.
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Damn Spoetnik! Looks like you called another one I personally enjoy the rants. Keep it up! |
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He needs a red mark or two already. This is typical scammer behavior.
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