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Title: Recovering lost wallet from old windows install
Post by: cambie24 on August 28, 2014, 01:40:15 am

I have a Users folder (with appdata intact) that I would like to recover the wallet file from.

I do not see any json or wallet.dat file in the wallets folder in appdata]\BitshareX folder

here is a screenshot of the target directory I am trying to recover from: http://imgur.com/wZMNvqI

Any suggestions?

Thanks,,,

Title: Re: Recovering lost wallet from old windows install
Post by: CoinHoarder on August 28, 2014, 02:13:45 am

Quote from: cambie24 on August 28, 2014, 01:40:15 am

I have a Users folder (with appdata intact) that I would like to recover the wallet file from.

I do not see any json or wallet.dat file in the wallets folder in appdata]\BitshareX folder

here is a screenshot of the target directory I am trying to recover from: http://imgur.com/wZMNvqI

Any suggestions?

Thanks,,,

Close client

Copy the old "default" folder and replace it with the current one

Open client

Rescan block chain

Title: Re: Recovering lost wallet from old windows install
Post by: vikram on August 28, 2014, 02:42:48 pm

Quote from: cambie24 on August 28, 2014, 01:40:15 am

I have a Users folder (with appdata intact) that I would like to recover the wallet file from.

I do not see any json or wallet.dat file in the wallets folder in appdata]\BitshareX folder

here is a screenshot of the target directory I am trying to recover from: http://imgur.com/wZMNvqI

Any suggestions?

Thanks,,,

The entire "...\wallets\default" folder is the wallet. It is not a single file. You might also want to save the "...\wallets\.backups" folder if there is one.

Title: Re: Recovering lost wallet from old windows install
Post by: nodata on August 28, 2014, 05:23:37 pm

I was the one posting for cambie24, and I did not realize the whole folder was the wallet. Thank you for the help, I think we figured it out :D

Title: Re: Recovering lost wallet from old windows install
Post by: FBI on August 28, 2014, 07:36:50 pm

Great. I had this problem too. Thanks.