Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

A friend of mine is going through a divorce. Long story, blah. He thinks that there may be a bitcoin address in one of the files on a computer that he may lose in a settlement, but has no idea what file type it might be (text, html, word, excel, anything).

Is there a way to search a PC for a Bitcoin address, or bitcoin wallet? If she was to use file find or some other type of search program that would search all files for a string, what would it be?