Quote from: botija on January 29, 2019, 03:23:46 AM

I'm having a bit of an issue. I thought I had all my coins on coinbene, but not, most of it is still on my original Eth wallet. I've been going nuts looking for the wallet for the past two hours. Hard to find dud to all the useless Airdrop from a year ago cluttering everything. I finally found the address, but low and behold, for some reason where I stored it doesn't have the private key. Is there anything that I can do? I'm losing my mind. I've checked everywhere in my computer, Windows search, dropbox.

The address is linked/associated to my DCT account, since I bought ALAX with DCT.

I figured out what happened, after seeing two deleted files on my Dropbox history. One with the Eth address in a compressed password protected file and another with the JSON MEW file. Since they were deleted over 30 days ago (probably 31), I can't recover it from Dropbox. I even upgraded to the paid Dropbox plan, since they keep deleted files for longer, but that did not work.

From what I remember, I normally copy and paste password protected private keys files out of my Dropbox to the Desktop, for security reasons. To not have my private key unencrypted in my Dropbox, which in theory could potentially be access by someone at the company, or if someone else gets access to my Dropbox. Both highly unlikely. I must have simply moved it to the desktop, instead of copy and pasted it. So trying to be extra careful created an extra point of failure.

Another thing that I do is backup all of my files to an external hard drive, so I'm running undelete software on it. It's currently scanning it, and it's going to take 14 hours to scan each sector of the hard drive. Hopefully, since the files are less than one kilobyte, they were not written over by new files added since it was last saved there.

It's almost like a curse. Because like I mentioned earlier, I also have it saved on a page with all my Eth addresses, but for some bizarre reason this ALAX one only has the address but not the private key. So the one address that gets lost does not have the private key. Its got to be a curse.