How to Scan Your Computer for Wasabi Wallet Files

2025-11-02 2 min read #Cryptocurrencies

Wasabi Wallet is a popular, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, well-known for its CoinJoin implementation. Many people have used it to store and manage their Bitcoins over the years. If you are one of them, you might have an old wallet file on your computer but have long since forgotten its location. Now that you want to access your coins, how do you track down that file?

You have two main options: you can search for the wallet files manually, or you can use an automatic method.

The manual way

Wasabi Wallet stores its wallet data in a JSON file. While this file could technically be located anywhere on your computer, it is usually found within the Wallets folder inside the Wasabi Wallet data directory.

On Windows, you should check the following paths:

  • C:\Users\<username>\AppData\WalletWasabi\Client\Wallets
  • C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\WalletWasabi\Client\Wallets

On Mac, you should look in this folder:

  • /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/WalletWasabi/Client/Wallets

The contents of these JSON files vary depending on the wallet version. For instance, a file from a very old version of Wasabi Wallet might look like this:

1{
2  "EncryptedSecret": "6PYKccJMaxLz9wpGSx1ZdVi1bTHD446KW7ewXKmmLx1GWpxZB8iJ9Jj2SE",
3  "ChainCode": "/xEg8eBSv7om2wMBxDOtHlK7ak63xcXL2t2WZiQY1sI=",
4  "ExtPubKey": "03BAFB469580000000BE542E25DDFD3E1C1F24C12BAA56C0B5082E6265B58BCFCEF75E32DD996ABC720336775E2B832E27B964C8021A8AACB432399D6889CEF72918761DB13507A3A88C",
5  "HdPubKeys": []
6}

A more recent wallet file is significantly larger and more complex. It might contain lines similar to the ones above, but also many additional entries and data fields.

If you can’t find your wallet files in these locations, the manual search becomes extremely difficult. Your computer could have thousands of .json files, and your wallet file might not have an obvious name. However, you may want to search for a file whose name contains the word wallet and ends with .json.

The automatic way

The manual method described above has several major drawbacks. It’s incredibly time-consuming and error-prone. This method will almost certainly fail if you took steps to hide your wallet, for instance by renaming the file or moving it to a different location.

This is precisely why I created the software Treasure Hunter. It’s a tool that does all the heavy lifting for you. Instead of manually digging through folders, you simply tell Treasure Hunter which drive to scan, and it automatically searches for Wasabi Wallet files (among other wallet types).

Here’s why it’s a better approach:

  • It is designed to detect wallet files even if attempts have been made to hide them.
  • It works on a variety of storage devices, including HDDs, SSDs, USB keys, SD cards, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs.
  • It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  • You can scan your storage devices for free.

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