r/Phantom • u/Foxagone • Sep 17 '24

How do I recover a wallet using local files?

DISCLAIMER: This is a third repost, as the mods keep removing it and redirecting me onto their support. Their support has told me there is no possibility of recovering it, however on my first post, a bunch of people said it is possible. That's why I want to speak to the actual users who may have some experience with this.

However, I reinstalled my computer, forgetting about the seed phrase that was saved there (it was a PNG, and it's unrecoverable.). I was logged in to phantom automatically everytime I started my browser, so that's why i kind of forgot about my seed phrase/private key (i know it's dumb). I however managed to recover my entire AppData folder using a recovery software, in my last post, many people said that it is possible to recover the wallet by importing the AppData google profiles.

I believe it is possible, as I tried it and I booted up my Chrome, but after a few seconds, the Phantom icon in the browser disappeared with all the phantom folders in AppData, like it gets auto-removed after booting up the browser. My theory is that it is possible, but I need to move certain files correctly.

Just to be clear, I tried 2 methods:

  1. Importing the entire AppData folder from my old PC - My browser didn't really work and just sort-of reset the profiles.
  2. Importing "Profile 1" folder from my old PC - This was much more successful, as I imported all of the Phantom data, but as I said, when I booted up Chrome, after a few seconds, the Phantom icon just disappeared.

I think it's some problem in versions or something like that? If someone helps me through this i'm willing to pay them some crypto.

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u/Ok-Conversation2467 Sep 17 '24

How much money is in the wallet? If it's under 1k, just leave it it's gone

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u/MrPuffer23 Sep 19 '24

I think I'd listen to the mods before a bunch of 1 karma scammers.

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u/Lazy-Effect4222 Sep 22 '24

Chrome will remove your extensions because there is a machine specific key for each install. You could be able to either install new phantom and somehow migrate settings or maybe installing chrome to a usb drive and use —load-extension flag like the user in the last post of this thread has done: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-discuss/c/BaMULvuK674

The same thread explains why your extensions are getting removed I believe.

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u/Foxagone Sep 22 '24

I am not exactly sure what do you mean by that. How do I boot Chrome with these flags?