Quote from: zvs on March 04, 2025, 07:16:25 PM

Quote from: superbotolo on February 25, 2025, 11:30:01 PM

Hello,

I have a bunch of old wallet.dat files that are very likely empty. I would love to give a final look to make sure I am not missing any money in those wallets.

I don't currently have a fully synced node and I have done the following to check the balance, let me know if this is correct.

I load the wallet.dat file in the Bitcoin Core app (on Mac). The app tells me that it needs to sync the entire blockchain and I say go for it. While the app is syncing the blockchain, I click on the menu Window and select Receiving Addresses.

I then check the balance of all these addresses on Blockchain.com.

Does this give me the full picture of the balance of those wallets?

That *is* correct. You can manually check each address on blockchain.com. It may take a lot of time, but ...

Only checking receiving addresses will exclude any balance associated with change addresses as these are not shown in the receive addresses list.