So I recently got a new MacBook and gave my iMac to my wife. I deleted my user account (with my LTC wallet) from the iMac and created a new one for her. I installed LTC-qt but after the sync the coins aren’t there. I don’t know if there’s a way to recover them, or if they’re gone? I completely forgot and didn’t create a backup. Is there any hope? I’m not sure what to do or try. I looked for wallet.dat. I didn’t reformat the hard drive so I’m thinking it should still be there somewhere, just not sure how to find the coins?
Basically what you want to do is stop using the Mac, and try to recover the wallet.dat file from the hard drive. Even though the file has been deleted, the contents are still on the drive (until something overwrites that portion of the hard drive, thus the importance of using it as little as possible until you successfully recover the wallet.dat file)
A simple “undelete” program for Mac may do the trick even. It’s definitely worth pursuing.