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Title: Electrum Crash and wallet file erasing? Post by: Cluster2k on October 05, 2017, 11:32:56 AM Hi there. I'm a long time user of Electrum, actually running the latest version. Never had serious issues with this wallet since i use it and holding quite a serious amount in it.
I had this strange thing happened to me yesterday for the first time. I was running my pc with electrum wallet opened in my programs when suddendly the pc crashed (win 10) making a new "blue screen of death" that I have never had the pleasure to see before, then my pc collected issue data and restarted. after restart i went opening electrum and i noticed he was prompting me for a new wallet! What the heck i thought... Luckily i'm a skilled user and got my seed in a secret place where i can find for these necessities and i restored the missing wallet with that. I just wonder why i got my electrum wallet deleted with the crash?? It has to be specified that I had many electrum *.wallet in the same folder. Default wallet and another wallet didn't disappeared, but the one i was using yes. Did this happened to anyone else around here? Or can someone more technically skilled explain to me what could happened? Best regards. Title: Re: Electrum Crash and wallet file erasing? Post by: Abdussamad on October 05, 2017, 04:35:44 PM Yes it's possible that your wallet file was not fully committed to disk because of the crash. You should run scan disk on your hard drive to check for bad sectors.
Title: Re: Electrum Crash and wallet file erasing? Post by: Cluster2k on October 05, 2017, 07:30:11 PM Yes it's possible that your wallet file was not fully committed to disk because of the crash. You should run scan disk on your hard drive to check for bad sectors. Also if the hard disk is an SSD? Does this matter in any way? Title: Re: Electrum Crash and wallet file erasing? Post by: Abdussamad on October 05, 2017, 10:08:17 PM Yes it's possible that your wallet file was not fully committed to disk because of the crash. You should run scan disk on your hard drive to check for bad sectors. Also if the hard disk is an SSD? Does this matter in any way? Same thing applies. The file wasn't committed to disk because of the crash. Could be a problem with the disk or some other piece of hardware in your system. It's not an electrum problem. Title: Re: Electrum Crash and wallet file erasing? Post by: Cluster2k on October 06, 2017, 08:17:17 AM Yes it's possible that your wallet file was not fully committed to disk because of the crash. You should run scan disk on your hard drive to check for bad sectors. Also if the hard disk is an SSD? Does this matter in any way? Same thing applies. The file wasn't committed to disk because of the crash. Could be a problem with the disk or some other piece of hardware in your system. It's not an electrum problem. Ok i got help also from Electrum dev on IRC channel yesterday, everything clear now. I supposed it was an OS related issue and not an Electrum's one. Better know. |