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I have got into a problem with change address.
I made several transfers several months ago, the wallet was created by Electrum.
I can see the balance in a change address in last transaction in BTC blockchain explorer.
I re-installed Electrum and some other wallets and imported the original wallet, but I cannot see the correct balance of the wallet.
How can I transfer the BTC from the change address to somewhere?

Appreciate for any help.

If you recovered your wallet correctly, your change addresses and the right balance should be there.

Do you know how you originally created the wallet and do you have the original wallet file? Have you tried recovering the wallet from your mnemonic again just to be sure you did it right the first time?

Also does it look like you have a similar number of addresses and change addresses as last time?

Try to generate more change addresses by typing this to the console (change "100" into higher value if you want to generate more):
"View->Show Console" to enable the console tab.

But it looks like there's more to this than being a 'change address issue'.

You should recover your wallet using your mnemonic.
And when you do that, do you see any transaction history in your wallet at all? Because if you see some history and not the expected balance then it most probably is because the "secondary" address you are seeing on the block explorer is not yours. But if you don't see any history at all it means you are recovering a wrong wallet so something is wrong with your mnemonic. There are 3 possibilities I can think of:
1. Mistakes among words (maybe you wrote the wrong word or order of the words)
2. You are recovering a BIP39 wallet instead of Electrum specially if you are using another wallet than Electrum
3. You used an extension word (sometimes referred to as passphrase)

By that I understand you don't see the correct balance, but you do see some transactions. Otherwise, you should write that you don't see any history at all.

Also, in which wallet you don't see the correct balance? If it's the others, then it's fine, because Electrum has its own standard of mnemonics. Just import it in Electrum and you'll be able to recover the original wallet.

From your Electrum, click on View -> Show Addresses if you haven't done yet. Then, on Addresses, right click on the change address you want to spend from and click “Spend From”.

Is your wallet fully synced?
On the Addresses tab, do you see the sending address and the change address?
If you can see only the sending address then what you saw on the block explorer isn't your change address.
If you don't see any of them then you've restored the wrong wallet.
I don't think this is a gap limit issue.

If you recovered your wallet from private keys, it might be an issue with not adding the correct prefix depending on what kind of addresses you want to recover:

• Legacy, starting with 1
• Nested Segwit, starting with 3
• native Segwit, starting with bc1

Once you recovered your Electrum wallet, do the addresses you see in it start with the same character?
What type if addresses were part of your wallet before and what do you see now?

Can you please confirm exactly what you mean when you say you can't see the "correct balance of the wallet"... do you mean:

1. That you can see some transaction history on the "history" tab, but that the balance is currently showing as 0 BTC...
or
2. That there is no transaction history being showing on the "history" tab (and balance is 0 BTC)

???