Title: Electrum Wallet Loses Access to Receive Address Post by: timlevin on January 18, 2019, 03:44:46 AM I am pretty new to the use of bitcoins and Electrum, so I am asking for help resolving
this problem: my local Electrum wallet cannot access an address it created. I have two Electrum wallets on my Mac, called W2 and W3. On Tuesday of this week, I started a transaction to send some BTC from W2 to W3:
Problems During this transaction (which never finished on its own) the wallet responded very slowly a couple of times. Then, I was shocked to see that there was not a History record on W3 corresponding to the Receive request that I had started there. So, I don't see any way to restart the receive request so as to access the BTCs I had transferred. On the Blockchain, there was an address record and a Transaction record for this transaction, as you would expect. But I found that, depending on which wallet it is invoked from, Electrum's "Load Transaction from the Blockchain" tool returns a different record for the same input ID (i.e., ID "c44254..."):
as well as switching servers. I did find an Electrum error log on the terminal window where Electrum was started (see listing, below). Hopefully it will lend some insight to those who understand these sort of listings. Transactions These are the transaction records returned by the "Load from Blockchain tool," except that I left out the two "Inputs" lines on each. The date of the send and receive operations was 2019-01-15 04:34 Invoked from W3: Status: Signed transaction unrelated to your wallet Size 371 bytes Fee: unknown (Skipped inputs) Outputs (2) 1A1zanRQ9hiAWJDDiaTZS6hfzXf3b69jbe 0.00013114 3HD3XJK7bWfBAm3DddJkWWbt3Y5SzUx3ht 0.27019635 Invoked from W2: Description: from w2 to w3 Status: 215 confirmations Amount sent: 0.27019635 BTC Size: 371 bytes Fee: 0.001116 BTC (300.8 sat/byte) Outputs (2) 1A1zanRQ9hiAWJDDiaTZS6hfzXf3b69jbe 0.00013114 3HD3XJK7bWfBAm3DddJkWWbt3Y5SzUx3ht 0.27019635 Setup I am running this software and hardware:
Electrum Error Listing These are the error messages that appeared on the OSX terminal, from which I had started Electrum: Code: timl<56>2019-01-13 11:50:36.540 Python[28609:4879297] modalSession has been exited prematurely - check for a reentrant call to endModalSession: Title: Re: Electrum Wallet Loses Access to Receive Address Post by: pooya87 on January 18, 2019, 05:02:41 AM you have sent 0.27019635BTC to 3HD3XJK7bWfBAm3DddJkWWbt3Y5SzUx3ht and the change amount went to your 1A1zanRQ9hiAWJDDiaTZS6hfzXf3b69jbe which i am assuming is from your W2 wallet. now the question is if the address starting with '3HD...' belongs to you because when you load it in your W3 wallet and get "transaction unrelated to your wallet" error message it means this address does NOT belong to you. so that may be the source of your problem.
to check whether this address is yours open your W3 wallet and see if any of your addresses start with 3, if they do then go to your address tab and press Ctrl + F and paste the address there to filter the addresses. if you see it there, then it is yours. or you can go to your Console tab and type in: Code: ismine('3HD3XJK7bWfBAm3DddJkWWbt3Y5SzUx3ht') Title: Re: Electrum Wallet Loses Access to Receive Address Post by: HCP on January 18, 2019, 08:34:43 PM I have two Electrum wallets on my Mac, called W2 and W3. Just FYI, creating a "receive" record is not required, and doesn't affect anything at all... this is completely unnecessary to "receive" bitcoins. All this feature does in effect, is create an "invoice" that you can send to someone to make it easier for them to know the address to send to, and the amount of BTC to send. Kind of like how Bitpay send you a link you can click on and it shows all the address and amount information when you're trying to pay a merchant.On Tuesday of this week, I started a transaction to send some BTC from W2 to W3:
When invoked from W3, the record contains "transaction unrelated to your wallet" If you are seeing this message... then it means that none of the addresses used as inputs or outputs in this transaction are addresses in your W3 wallet.The most likely reason is that you have sent bitcoins to the wrong address... :-\ Check the addresses tab in W3, do they start with "1", or "3", or "bc1"? |