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July 12, 2017, 08:15:05 PM
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Hi,
I had Bitcoin wallet on XP. I belive it was bitcoin-qt. It was back in 2012 and since than I've changed system to win7, and lost most of files like passwords, backups...
The only file which I found recently is .prv file.
When changed to .txt it looks like this:

-----BEGIN DATA-----
KSO+hOFs1q5oAgAANHyShn6BdGpGAQSRNmfHKayk7XjzBJ7X/6yKIgmlEDnl6HCL
VGxy7XW5flR4sOMPu6fac4zNKvT+ZFlk50gQonMdRLe+u2HvmWtes82airrePBKQ
ghAn83XXwFIdDQPqCvta6OEAXgz6FpPEJ+bqOUyiB1cBmIJmGFYizNkym6r72HFi
VozoL68UsT8MgKZrpRAgkRaKJeSg1awYSVRmzqNADBznm4Z0SYpK0//fcLFnH3mJ
oE3EMUZDs5LnU8rqJiAGLxndxzFsIKLglY2e5XFfEVHQ71Rvy7R/s0nR4ir03AzD
oqsIZVCu1Nhy9vN9T7X6UqYOF5VyV4/jteoQoPD2DJGcGfhzVEgthlvZKGfFqODv
Kn01xYvT3aLPAeLLVzlk1+S8JTJYa9AhzV5Fv5xgfNaaRNn9VKWm5rlQ+GCBDOrv
o1OGWTfLSpW1iHla/hm7IYVYZHmd6D7QDFWqHu/3oao31/qJcT8t5YjMy6jK3aV1
HOS0xFwhdwn5Yz/+5jQ1UWAv6plgoYOsDU0FUk1Ixbk73kGv0kuXpbgoDZZebnXo
H0UMTjHaKR9tGNxO50Xa7SoMS8CCjSEjwoypArLjWPKG7T0Gj/o+APVec8ZJSTCW
9GbCb3O7HTUNi2lCk98yuU+AY25qFPisD244NDCC/9dJm2ANTW9WL6J9IiQ8OKzt
0EiqhjfsnlwWoKXkadTqiAb+sQ+Jm+ipV1Z/1MlYLhwXWXJXGC3ig3/uH7Imf05x
FttnHvsiwIjUUKn2FKvn8rvBpUOGTD1CdZwzL7buvUQ8jTp+85CdsK6jBJfvjMbP
fYlr3w==
-----END DATA-----

I've changed few letters in it to keep it safe  Wink
but i'm not sure is any point in it....

Is it possible this is encrypted private key or something like that?
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July 12, 2017, 09:16:34 PM
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I haven't seen any Bitcoin software that uses files with a .prv extension, but there could be some.

Did you ever have Adobe Premiere Elements, or SoftMaker Presentations software installed on your computer? Both of those applications use files with .prv extensions.
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July 12, 2017, 09:49:09 PM
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Did you ever have Adobe Premiere Elements, or SoftMaker Presentations software

Its possible... But I'm sure I wasn't using anything more than wallet app than.
So this is prv file is nothing usefull  Sad
Thank you for help, anyway.
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July 12, 2017, 10:13:09 PM
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Did you ever have Adobe Premiere Elements, or SoftMaker Presentations software

Its possible... But I'm sure I wasn't using anything more than wallet app than.
So this is prv file is nothing usefull  Sad
Thank you for help, anyway.

As far as I know Bitcoin core hasn't ever used files with a .prv extension, but other users here know far more about core than me, so I could be wrong.

It's worth keeping a copy of the file and continuing to ask for help from others. Is it possible you could have been using alternative wallet software to Bitcoin core like an SPV wallet?
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