I am trying to recover my old LTC account. I still have the address (on blockchain I can still see the correct amount of LTC) and I still hold the old wallet.dat file, which I saved in the past.
I’ve downloaded LTC core in order to make a few transactions, but obviously I couldnt see the LTC balance. I’ve checked out this website and read I had to replace the wallet.dat file by the old wallet.dat file, which I did. Restarted LTC Core, but still can not see anything.
So for all those in the near future encountering the same prob as me; these were the steps I had to follow:
download LiteCore
synch (which took me 3 days)
replaced new wallet.dat by old wallet.dat
run -rescan as per above (which took about 2 hours)
This what’s so frustrating about the world of cryptocurrency. It’s quite technical, especially when you bought these coins a couple of years ago. If they’d make all this more userfriendly, more people would actually buy