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###Hello my friends!

Hello my friends!

Here is my situation:

I accidentally deleted a partition on my HDD containing the only copy of my bitcoin wallet. Facepalm. After running data recovery tools, I've found and restored around 150 .dat files. Unfortunately, the recovery software assigns arbitrary names to these files, so I cannot identify which one is my BTC wallet.dat.

###My question :

My question :

Is there a quick way or a utility that can confirm if a .dat file is a valid bitcoin wallet? I would like to run a script to iterate through each .dat and check it in order to find the bitcoin wallet among all the .dat files I recovered.

Worst comes to worst, I will just need to try to import each one, one-by-one ( (which sounds like an awful way to spend my afternoon tomorrow). I am still pretty new to BTC and unfamiliar with the set of tools it involves, so I am hoping there is a programatic way to do this :D

###Hello my friends!

Here is my situation:

I accidentally deleted a partition on my HDD containing the only copy of my bitcoin wallet. Facepalm. After running data recovery tools, I've found and restored around 150 .dat files. Unfortunately, the recovery software assigns arbitrary names to these files, so I cannot identify which one is my BTC wallet.dat.

###My question :

Is there a quick way or a utility that can confirm if a .dat file is a valid bitcoin wallet? I would like to run a script to iterate through each .dat and check it in order to find the bitcoin wallet among all the .dat files I recovered.

Worst comes to worst, I will just need to try to import each one, one-by-one ( (which sounds like an awful way to spend my afternoon tomorrow). I am still pretty new to BTC and unfamiliar with the set of tools it involves, so I am hoping there is a programatic way to do this :D

Hello my friends!

Here is my situation:

I accidentally deleted a partition on my HDD containing the only copy of my bitcoin wallet. Facepalm. After running data recovery tools, I've found and restored around 150 .dat files. Unfortunately, the recovery software assigns arbitrary names to these files, so I cannot identify which one is my BTC wallet.dat.

My question :

Is there a quick way or a utility that can confirm if a .dat file is a valid bitcoin wallet? I would like to run a script to iterate through each .dat and check it in order to find the bitcoin wallet among all the .dat files I recovered.

Worst comes to worst, I will just need to try to import each one, one-by-one ( (which sounds like an awful way to spend my afternoon tomorrow). I am still pretty new to BTC and unfamiliar with the set of tools it involves, so I am hoping there is a programatic way to do this :D

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Identifying wallet file among soup of recovered .dat files

###Hello my friends!

Here is my situation:

I accidentally deleted a partition on my HDD containing the only copy of my bitcoin wallet. Facepalm. After running data recovery tools, I've found and restored around 150 .dat files. Unfortunately, the recovery software assigns arbitrary names to these files, so I cannot identify which one is my BTC wallet.dat.

###My question :

Is there a quick way or a utility that can confirm if a .dat file is a valid bitcoin wallet? I would like to run a script to iterate through each .dat and check it in order to find the bitcoin wallet among all the .dat files I recovered.

Worst comes to worst, I will just need to try to import each one, one-by-one ( (which sounds like an awful way to spend my afternoon tomorrow). I am still pretty new to BTC and unfamiliar with the set of tools it involves, so I am hoping there is a programatic way to do this :D