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<p><strong>only see 2020 in it.</strong></p>
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<p>Hexadecimal 20 is the ASCII space character. If your file contains nothing but 20  then it contains no useful data and no useful data can ever be extracted from it†.</p>
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<p><strong>is it maybe encrypted?</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Encrypted data generally looks like a completely random sequence of hexadecimal values between 00 and FF. If your file contains nothing other than repeats of 20, it is not encrypted.</p>
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<p><strong>wallet.dat file is 180mb</strong></p>
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<p>Then I guess you might not have looked at every byte to verify that <em>all</em> are hexadecimal 20. I would use a program or script to see if somewhere in that 180 MB is any byte sequence other than repeats of hexadecimal 20. But the likelihood of recovery seems small.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://superuser.com/q/559772/52492">https://superuser.com/q/559772/52492</a> (<code>od -x wallet.dat | head</code> e.g in WSL)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/720458/Counting-Occurrences" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/720458/Counting-Occurrences</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1159245" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1159245</a></li>
</ul>
<p><sub>† you could encode a small number, e.g. 7458 as a byte and a count of repeats but this is irrelevant in the context of recovering a Bitcoin wallet file</sub></p>

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<p>I found my wallet but i cannot access it tryed with bitcoin core. But gives error i think i encrypted or corrupted file. I openend with WinHex but only see 2020 in it.try to find hash but no succes.<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/WWdm1.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/WWdm1.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a> i will upload printscreen all help with be appriced.</p>

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2023-07-05T14:39:53.323Z
Your entire file seems to contain just spaces, based on that hex dump. There is no key material in there.
Pieter Wuille
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is it maybe encrypted? wallet.dat file is 180mb
Eddy
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I cannot tell based on what you're showing here.
Pieter Wuille
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i understand what do you need
Eddy
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# wallet seem to be encrypted or corrupt

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-07-05)

I found my wallet but i cannot access it tryed with bitcoin core. But gives error i think i encrypted or corrupted file. I openend with WinHex but only see 2020 in it.try to find hash but no succes.[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/WWdm1.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/WWdm1.jpg) i will upload printscreen all help with be appriced.

**Tags:** wallet-recovery, wallet.dat, encryption

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Your entire file seems to contain just spaces, based on that hex dump. There is no key material in there.  
> **username_0**: is it maybe encrypted? wallet.dat file is 180mb  
> **username_1**: I cannot tell based on what you're showing here.  
> **username_0**: i understand what do you need  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2023-07-09. Score: 0

> **only see 2020 in it.**

Hexadecimal 20 is the ASCII space character. If your file contains nothing but 20 then it contains no useful data and no useful data can ever be extracted from it†.

> **is it maybe encrypted?**

Encrypted data generally looks like a completely random sequence of hexadecimal values between 00 and FF. If your file contains nothing other than repeats of 20, it is not encrypted.

> **wallet.dat file is 180mb**

Then I guess you might not have looked at every byte to verify that *all* are hexadecimal 20. I would use a program or script to see if somewhere in that 180 MB is any byte sequence other than repeats of hexadecimal 20. But the likelihood of recovery seems small.

* <https://superuser.com/q/559772/52492> (`od -x wallet.dat | head` e.g in WSL)
* <https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/720458/Counting-Occurrences>
* <https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1159245>

† you could encode a small number, e.g. 7458 as a byte and a count of repeats but this is irrelevant in the context of recovering a Bitcoin wallet file


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