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thank you for this post. when i got to restore, i cannot see the wallet.dat file. this is in linux. i thought i have "shown hidden files" in the GUI but when the browser comes up to locate the wallet.dat file, none of those hidden files are shown. i assume there is a setting i missed in linux?
It's probably not related to your hidden file setting and just your wallet backup's name, maybe you've renamed the wallet.dat's extension into something other than "
.dat"?
Because that browser window can only see directories (
folders) and anything with '.dat' extension.