Monero wallet help

[takuma sato]

I have found some really old monero files installed on a Windows computer from when it was called bit monero. I may have mined a small amount back then so I would like to see what's up. There's some files there like a simplewallet fille, and some address something files, some .keys files, I don't know how this works. In Bitcoin it's just wallet.dat, but here im not sure.

Does anyone know what you are supposed to do with those files?

Would the Monero GUI desktop wallet work for this or you have to use Monero CLI? There's a lot of people that asked this before but im not sure what they did. I don't use Windows anymore so I cannot open that old version, and I assume that wouldn't work anyway.

[OmegaStarScream]

The .keys file should have what you need, it basically contains the private keys that allows you to spend the funds. See here[2] (you should be able to do it through the UI) but make sure to select the third option instead of the fourth (import an .keys file).

[1] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/restore_from_keys.html

[takuma sato]

The .keys file should have what you need, it basically contains the private keys that allows you to spend the funds. See here[2] (you should be able to do it through the UI) but make sure to select the third option instead of the fourth (import an .keys file).

[1] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/restore_from_keys.html

Wait so these .keys files have your private keys in plaintext? because on the screenshot there that says "Restore from keys" there are 3 slots to enter some keys. What are those? I assume is this:

Account address (public), View key (private) & Spend key (private)

But that means that is stored inside the .keys file and you can just open it with a text editor? I don't get it, that doesn't seem very safe.

Also, what if you had different addresses? Or XMR only works with one address per wallet?

And what about that simplewallet file?

PS: Im asking because I cannot check the files myself right now, im not on the computer that has them.

[OmegaStarScream]

No, you should still need your password (If you had one of course) to decrypt the keys file. They are not stored in plaintext.

You should go with the third option (Open a wallet from file) and not the fourth like the guide shows (restore wallet from keys or mnemonic seed):



I have not tried this before, but I would imagine that everything is derived from that one file, regardless how many addresses you have generated.

If you had multiple wallets/accounts (not to be confused with addresses) then you would probably have multiple .keys files.

Not sure about the simplewallet you're referring to, but it's probably nothing important (could be holding your transactions history, addresses, etc.) but for funds recovery, you would need either the .keys file (with the password) or the seedphrase.

[takuma sato]

No, you should still need your password (If you had one of course) to decrypt the keys file. They are not stored in plaintext.

You should go with the third option (Open a wallet from file) and not the fourth like the guide shows (restore wallet from keys or mnemonic seed):



I have not tried this before, but I would imagine that everything is derived from that one file, regardless how many addresses you have generated.

If you had multiple wallets/accounts (not to be confused with addresses) then you would probably have multiple .keys files.

Not sure about the simplewallet you're referring to, but it's probably nothing important (could be holding your transactions history, addresses, etc.) but for funds recovery, you would need either the .keys file (with the password) or the seedphrase.

Right, so I will select "Advanced mode" and it downloads the entire blockchain apparently which I prefer over any "pruned" stuff. My question is, does this software expose your IP to others? In that case shouldn't you run this through Tor?

And as far as the transaction history, will it be clear that the coins were mined? I honestly intend to sell this stuff, im not really interested in holding the funds, so im going to need to be able to prove the source of funds, which shouldn't be a problem if they are mined since it's very easy to prove I just mined them years ago. However since I don't know how the XMR blockhain works im not sure what im doing here.