Quote from: coffeelunatic on May 31, 2017, 06:17:12 PM

@nerioseole
The .dat file was originally called litecoins.dat, and I remember when I saved it changing the name that was given to me and naming it litecoins.dat

I only changed it to wallet.dat yesterday after reading a few posts on this forum where users had similar problems and they needed to change it

to wallet.dat, .. but I didn't realize this was an electrum-btc or if it even mattered what client I used to open litecoins...thats how new I am to this :-// learning as I go.

@Abdussamad:
What is json code and what do you mean? Will identifying this code help in some way?

JSON is human-readable text. If you open it in a text editor it looks sort of like:

Code:

{
"addr_history": {
"1xxxxxxxxxxxxxrzxxxxxxxNtqX": [
[
"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
433332
],
[
"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxc",
433331
]
]
},
"addresses": [
"1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNtqX"
],
"pruned_txo": {},
"seed_version": 13,
"stored_height": 433330,

(of course, actual content and even names of entries would differ, since this is a sample of a wallet created with Bitcoin for BTC (and a newer version, at that), and I've replaced some private info with xxxxxx, but the general structure and symbols you'll see will be similar. If it's not JSON it will probably look like garbage with random specks of readable text within. If it looks like JSON it's probably an Electrum wallet.