Is there a wallet.dat for OSX? Where is it located?
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The Bitcoin wallet on Mac OS X is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/wallet.dat.
Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) came out, and it has the ~/Library folder hidden, see the answer from chilled35 to access it with Finder.
In order to see hidden folders, such as
~/Libraryfrom Finder, simply hitshift + ⌘ (command) + Gwhich will GO to a folder, then paste in this location:~/Library/Application Support/BitcoinFrom there, you will see all the files associated with your wallet.
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hmm I can't find this in Mountain Lion... – makerofthings7 Sep 16 '12 at 02:48
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hmm, I discovered I can see it in terminal, but not in Finder. – makerofthings7 Sep 16 '12 at 02:49
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Remember, this is the *default* location. If you installed Bitcoin a long time ago, you may have chosen another folder somewhere else... For example, mine was in `~/Documents/Bitcoin` – achedeuzot Nov 26 '14 at 05:37
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In order to see hidden folders, such as ~/Library from Finder, simply hit shift + ⌘ (command) + G which will GO to a folder, then paste in this location:
~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
From there, you will see all the files associated with your wallet.
Having moved all my BTC to another location, I recovered more than 5 GB of storage space by deleting my local wallet.
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