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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: Quenos on January 13, 2019, 11:55:45 AM



Title: Wallet gives receive address which is used
Post by: Quenos on January 13, 2019, 11:55:45 AM
Hi,

I've installed electrum together with EPS and the Trezor HW wallet.
When I click receive it gives me an address that was already used before I've started to use Electrum.
When I look in the addresses tab, I see that the first 8 address are already used and spent.

How can I skip these 8 addressed and get the first really unused address from Electrum?



Title: Re: Wallet gives receive address which is used
Post by: TryNinja on January 13, 2019, 04:21:47 PM
Try going to Wallet -> Addresses -> Filter; This will enable a filter on the "Address tab". Now go there and select "Unused" in the second box. Does it show any unused address?


Title: Re: Wallet gives receive address which is used
Post by: Abdussamad on January 13, 2019, 05:04:19 PM
Hi,

I've installed electrum together with EPS and the Trezor HW wallet.
When I click receive it gives me an address that was already used before I've started to use Electrum.
When I look in the addresses tab, I see that the first 8 address are already used and spent.

How can I skip these 8 addressed and get the first really unused address from Electrum?

That shouldn't be happening. The receive tab only hands out unused addresses. Perhaps electrum wasn't synced when you first switched to that tab? Try restarting electrum. Make sure it's synced and then switch to the receive tab.


Title: Re: Wallet gives receive address which is used
Post by: Quenos on January 13, 2019, 07:12:52 PM
After some more in-depth search on the Internet I've found out that it was actually the Electrum Personal Server that needed to be rescanned.

After this has been done, it works as it should.

Thanks for all the replies!


Title: Re: Wallet gives receive address which is used
Post by: Abdussamad on January 14, 2019, 06:05:52 PM
Thanks for letting us know. That's a new one!