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Hey--

When I first registered with Electrum, I set up a practice default account. I later deleted Electrum and later re-downloaded it not realizing that the practice default account was still there. Later when I was actually ready to buy bitcoins, I created another account not realizing that the default wallet was still active. When I transferred bitcoins, I mistakenly sent it to the "default wallet" instead of the "real one," if that make sense. I didn't keep any of the information for the default wallet because it was really just for practice but I have all the information for my "real one." if that makes sense. Any suggestion? Or, is this over for those bitcoins? Thanks.

if you can access both account why dont you try to send it to the real one? i guess it can be done though. or you can contact their support for further instructions to help and guide you on the process..

You still need the original password to transfer between accounts as far as I can tell. And I haven't been able to track down any contact info for Electrum support.

ThomasV is the creator of electrum, you can find him on this forum. Do realise electrum is a free, open source product, so ThomasV is not obliged to help anyone (altough he usually does help, he's a good guy).

That being said, i'm not completely sure if he'll be able to help you out, since you really need the password you set for your "test"-wallet in order to move funds from said wallet to a new one (you'll need the password to sign the transaction).

Do you have any idear what the password might have been?

Did you set a password on the default wallet? If not then you can still spend those bitcoins.

If you did set a password then you will have to try and recall that password. See if you can figure it out yourself. If not then there is a person (https://walletrecoveryservices.com/) who offers to bruteforce wallets with forgotten passwords. But he will only succeed if you have some idea of what the password was.

For future reference you can create short cuts to specific wallets using the -w switch:


Wallet files are stored in the electrum data directory (http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#where-is-my-wallet-file-located)

Also, don't forget about possibly recovering the deleted files if you haven't done too much to the hard drive already.  When you create a wallet using Electrum it forces you to save/copy the seed words and then paste them into the next field screen while creating the wallet.  That step was done to make sure at one point you saved the needed seed words so you can recover an Electrum wallet easily and with certainty.  I am saying that whatever file you had saved the seed words on may only be simply deleted and not over-written on your hard drive.  Do you have any experience with simple recovery tools that can often find files recently deleted?  You may get lucky here.  If you suspect a chance for finding those files stop writing data to the drive and commence recovery attempts.  That would be my suggestion.  Do you remember saving the seed words to a simple text file or something on the desktop?  Start with this, but realize every minute you use that drive you risk overwriting the sectors containing the file you need.