Quote from: MrTR3 on August 01, 2018, 12:15:14 AM

Hi , briefly in 2012 I zipped a wallet.dat and renamed it to .jpg ,

the drive had been formatted to NTFS.

the recovery software has brought the .jpg home but it is not able to return to .zip

without headers lost in recovery?>
these are start of a wallet.dat > wallet.zip ...here.

PK.........ÿL:¨ëaÈ...@......wallet - Copy.datì].8í.o0Ö².}ßìk,IÊ^...%k.²FÙ³.¬E.J¤E$ûRD²]RÙ..çûtüÍä?g8×uÎå\×<×ÿþ5ÏÜï}¿ïý|ëûÍL00.Ø¯°.'.C.a..ñ¯Ü.ØïX.kD.ú...u.ý=ø:f...¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\ü/.øgûý... Xdb.ó¸çÿ¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\l»À_{2.þt8iw.JýÊüïÿÃÿÃçÿx0\ü?..Øî .?pÙîkÐÈ:.zDWá«Jë-Ëàµ÷ùÄðÐp.EÈ.'\Ðmq?rm\ôu#ß/.Ñ/..ØÜï .n§..½x3£¡ACL^´.Nmýr5$.|¯...Ë§|<óíè%_öàÁ.Å.Î05ÜKYt][±÷S93TvÜ.Âßíz½¶ön.'1:.{í.Rï'

and the end of the zip file ... here.

.uö.;.¾.Póum4.éæp±òÞÙl«â=J¼òÄG.L¯GQxº0é*=.I.Pý.¬.(ÂÝ._Ù.S{E.¾ºxõQò.æ)..n8 M.@ÅG.Õ«#2`rG{dY¡êP59ÖÎé2°ÞÆeCúñ~`.¨øàbÝþ0°.¬L³eº.ÈsÙ·ßyÁRöX¿Ö.ñÏã.¼W 0.T|<OãÈåg\.Ü.Á9¼W$=.Ü`]²NÂÒÁIÏ.Ð.¹dü->þ.PK..?........ÿL:¨ëaÈ...@....$....... .......wallet - Copy.dat.. .........®o^¸(Ô.ý.á(Ô.ý.á(Ô.PK..........c...ÆÈ....

with lots in between , any idea where i can cut the data and replace mine in and restore the zip file ? is it able ? im a novice

next two strings are the beginning and ending of my file .....

¢ñÙb`ýmÔmW¿¾quvÇ[.pieäm.¬m.Ú.L4Ö ®o:. êm5d,â>ÁXç}*¡.&Fø.2h»>K§F½x°.÷È.ò-¿¢9J@å...ë6GÓf(¶±í¨).Eí}ÕÊÿ.%".¡C.ÍÜ.ò!¯Ð[ÄVµM.%Îië>`\V6.ûqL.¶.æBèÌ&..{|ªX...Nÿ.üó²ðnæy.ùÿ.1®qäÍsýÔ.wAiõ*.¯Rñó4

and ends in

.ÂÎÙùÕÂùk¸ßôh¨:Ö/ê]TS.¿üLçw/©$E7.é.¾Ôª/i®..h#?»7l;zIe`T,,ÅJhìï¡ìf.à@ñõ.¨._Å{§FÓÞM^ºÒò}=x!YwZÖ.©.^ºJçÛ.yg:.=_ÂÐÖZ%Lúå.@ò;J£._8YÀ.Æ|A.ë?¦í Új°£Ë_HÕ.^qðR§ÐpKòÿ.ge½)=S)ÅWÔÄ.r+

thanks any help appreiciated !!
have a good day !!

(edit ) the wallet ive zipped and shown here is empty wallet.dat from core 16

the data is from wallet ver 0.4 ....

another thing I noticed in your .dat was (wallet - Copy.dat) I know it is not human readable but basic info seems to be readable I have noticed this so I would like you to rename your (wallet - Copy.dat) to (wallet.dat) I know this is an empty wallet.dat but (wallet - Copy.dat) happens wit auto rename or even if you renamed it there must be only 1 wallet.dat in that folder with only the name wallet.dat (please remove copies if any)