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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Recovering electrum wallet without wallet.dat on: February 18, 2018, 02:05:07 AM
Thank you very much for the help!
Problem solved.
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Recovering electrum wallet without wallet.dat on: February 17, 2018, 06:52:00 PM
@Abdussamad I was very sure I've been using Electrum back there (I even saved it's installer for some reason), but it turns out the file was from Bitcoin core. Thanks for the suggestions, though!

@mocacinno thank you so much for pointing me to Bitcoin core!
Renamed file was opened correctly and I was able to export private key (what I thought of as password turned out to be my address, by the way) and create electrum wallet from it.

There is only single question left - do I need to do somehing else before using that new electrum wallet? I've seen mention of sweeping private keys in some tutorials, but these were about creating clean wallet and than importing key (I guess, create from key option was added later?)
3  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Recovering electrum wallet without wallet.dat on: February 17, 2018, 01:15:07 PM
Thank you for the reply!

Quote from: mocacinno on February 17, 2018, 12:53:30 PM
bitcoin.dat file => maybe, it could *potentially* be your wallet, a .dat extension could also mean it's a wallet that has been generated using bitcoin core.
If it is so, could you please tell how I can use it or where I can read about it? It isn't available for choosing in the attempt to open existing wallet. And all the search keeps pointing me to the wallet.dat file (damn these too smart search engines)

Quote from: mocacinno on February 17, 2018, 12:53:30 PM
password > only usefull *if* it's the pasword from your bitcoin.dat. IF it's a private key, it *could* be the private key of one of your addresses... It would be even better if it were a master private key. Electrum's master private key starts with xprv. Could you tell us what's the first letter and how many characters this password has?
It is 34 characters long and starts with digits '14'.
4  Bitcoin / Electrum / Recovering electrum wallet without wallet.dat on: February 17, 2018, 12:50:40 PM
I've created electrum wallet several years ago and wasn't very wise about backups back there. In fact, I just didn't understand what exactly I should've had saved.
Now when I've tried to finally recover the wallet I found out that I don't have wallet.dat file. Also I've never created a seed from what I can remember.
I have:
- bitcoin.dat file
- all the info about the single transaction of purchasing bitcoin (it is the only thing I've ever did with my wallet)
- QR-code with which I can login into my wallet but only in read-only mode
- Some password that absolutely is related to my wallet, but I genuinely can not remember what exactly it is and don't even know where I can enter it. (That's not the seed, just not very long string of letters and digits. I also doubt it is private key - the procedure of exporting it looks not-so-obvious and I, unfortunately, wasn't great in reading and understanding tutorials back there)

Is there any chance I can recover the wallet with any of this, or without the wallet.dat I'm doomed?
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