I am a long time holder of LTC. I wanted to sell my coins to by a miner and start mining LTC. The problem is that I tried to recover my dat file and I do not know if I have lost it all. I downloaded the Litecoin Core and replaced the dat file and then nothing happened. The problem is that the dat file now shows a recent date of creation. I made a backup of the file, but I stored it on the same computer and now it shows the same thing. Is it over for me? Was it overwritten? I hope not!
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It’s not over if you kept a backup of the “wallet.dat” file that has the private keys to move your Litecoin. I forgot the exact steps on how to make Litecoin Core recognize the wallet (you should create a folder and add “wallet.dat” inside that folder, and it will become one of many wallets recognized by Litecoin Core), but there’s this forum thread: link.
Are you afraid that Litecoin Core has overwritten the “wallet.dat” file? I think there are separate folders for each one of them. In the worst case scenario (hopefully you’re not there), there are tools to find such file, even if it was deleted from the hard disk (see TestDisk).