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Hello,

I create an Electrum wallet there is 1 year ago. It worked really good but one day the wallet just change in "non deterministic wallet" It means I can't give or receive any bitcoins. My bitcoins are stuck in the wallet...

Do you know how to put the wallet in "deterministic" mode ?


Thank you and have a nice day :p

ComiCaz (From France)


(My wallet is on a Mac computer)

A "non deterministic wallet" means you likely imported private keys and aren't using addresses derived from a seed. You will need to create a new deterministic Electrum wallet with a seed and then send the funds from your old wallet into the newly created one.

You mentioned you couldn't send or receive bitcoins? Are you receiving some sort of error? There really isn't anything that should be preventing you from using a  "non deterministic wallet" as it is simply another type of wallet.

Thank you for your answer,

this is the error message when I want to create adresses to receive Bitcoins : "You are using an non-deterministic wallet, which cannot create new adresses, If you want to create a new adresses, us a deterministic wallet instead"


Thank you for your help I really appreciate :)

You can use old addresses but not generate new addresses. Bring the addresses tab into view with ctrl+a to see all your old addresses. Another way to bring this tab into view is via view menu > show addresses (electrum 2.9.3) or wallet menu > addresses (<2.9.3).

If you want to create more addresses then create a new standard electrum wallet and move all your money there:
https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-an-electrum-wallet/

Thank you for your help :)

Here a video of my problem : https://youtu.be/ATIAC-oRAGA


Thank you !