Can you tell what coin a wallet.dat file is from

[DaveF]

Yes I know I'm an idiot.

Have a wallet.dat file
Could be ltc, doge, dash, or about 100 other different coins. Is there a way to examine the wallet w/o opening it in every coin app 1 at a time till I find the right one?

Thanks,
Dave

[Callanta787]

Mostly wallet.dat files are created in the document folder by user ,do you share your pc with others ? How could you not know which wallet you creates on your pc ?

[DaveF]

Mostly wallet.dat files are created in the document folder by user ,do you share your pc with others ? How could you not know which wallet you creates on your pc ?

I moved it to the desktop of old laptop for some reason.
I have never had any wallet software there, so at some point I put it there for some reason. No idea why, drawing a total blank.
It's dated Sept 2016 so it's been sitting untouched for 2 1/2 years at this point.
-Dave

[futile-resistance]

Yes I know I'm an idiot.

Have a wallet.dat file
Could be ltc, doge, dash, or about 100 other different coins. Is there a way to examine the wallet w/o opening it in every coin app 1 at a time till I find the right one?

Thanks,
Dave

Yes of course it is very possible, since you have a lot of wallet.dat folder and you are not a programmer I guess, then the best thing you should do is to go to the folder of the coin, delete the current wallet.dat there and keep adding.

Once you have one after the other until you are able to get the right one with the coin in it, though this might take you a lot of time to do but I am very sure that this is the best thing to do for now, I wish you good luck.

[DaveF]

Yes I know I'm an idiot.

Have a wallet.dat file
Could be ltc, doge, dash, or about 100 other different coins. Is there a way to examine the wallet w/o opening it in every coin app 1 at a time till I find the right one?

Thanks,
Dave

Yes of course it is very possible, since you have a lot of wallet.dat folder and you are not a programmer I guess, then the best thing you should do is to go to the folder of the coin, delete the current wallet.dat there and keep adding.

Once you have one after the other until you are able to get the right one with the coin in it, though this might take you a lot of time to do but I am very sure that this is the best thing to do for now, I wish you good luck.

Was hoping to avoid that.

I just did not know if something like pywallet could tell me or at least let me pull the addresses so I could go from there.
-Dave

[jhenfelipe]

I just did not know if something like pywallet could tell me or at least let me pull the addresses so I could go from there.
-Dave

You can try pywallet. Idk the step by step process, but I remember reading somewhere that you can see the list of addresses from there using --dumpwallet command. Try to look for an updated tutorial if there's any.

[mrdeposit]

Honestly, I am unaware about this because I never needed. lol
Found it on Google : https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/19589/how-to-determine-what-type-of-coins-a-wallet-dat-contains and this.