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Guys I have faced some small problems regarding my Private Key in MyEtherWallet. After they update their interface on their website and removed the vintage version of it, I have no other way to see my private key. that leads me to frustration because I have a certain token that I need to sell on Forkdelta. You know how the tokens in Forkdelta are right? when the volume is not high, you need to sell your tokens quickly. Now my problem is, I can't see some options in the new MyEtherWallet interface that let me see my Private key, There's no option either. If you guys have faced the same problem please tell us here and let's wait for someone to help us because if we didn't save our private key somewhere, then there's no way to get it and we cannot sell our tokens to Forkdelta unless we move it to another wallet, I don't want to create another wallet just for that, unless there's no other option to choose anymore.

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Hi the brand new interface changed a lot and I myself was shocked too. In order to find the same format used a laptop there is an option, to go back to its vintage version of it so you can used your private key for unlocking the wallet. Im not using any laptop or pc right now, but there is a prompt message to check back its old version on the top of the website

I do hope its still working, since Ive done it before when I needed to dump some tokens. Hope you can check it out and try.

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Luckily you can spot the instruction here:
https://medium.com/myetherwallet/saying-goodbye-to-vintage-mew-on-october-20-2019-e26cc81eb630

Moreover why don't you copy your private key to a safe location? What if there is no way to revert back to website old version? Taking unnecessary risks like this is not an excuse in crypto space, you are very lucky

Go to top and from upper right side menu select login to access wallet then click on login bar and you will see all the option through which you want o access your wallet the private key option is available in the software.

That's must be a frustrating to you buddy and i hope you can find solutions on how to recover your private keys sooner. Though i also used MyEtherWallet  long time a go and until now still using it as my main wallet address. I did backed up my private keys in a safe place in order to avoid hassle and stress just like you've have experienced right now and time will come that private keys will come in handy in the future.

I might need to check on this thread from time to time, I am not opening my MEW anymore but I got a lot of tokens stored their, I am waiting for the bull run to come just like you guys. When I read the title, I thought OP loss his private key, so I was thinking no solution to that.  ;D

did not understood well, you are looking where to paste your private key to access your funds, or you are looking for private key for your wallet that you already have? you can not find private key for already owned wallet, it was presented to you when you made your wallet, and you should save it then
this new MEW is validated through app on the mobile phone, and then you can use it on the phone, or export your private key for forkdelta

It doesn't work that way back in the days. You can login using your password and your key file and from there you still can access your private key inside. Now you can login without your private key.

MEW is making it hard for their users by changing all these things. It could actually just remain as it is. It only look like they purposely want use to lose our tokens.

There is still a way to open your MyEtherWallet using your private keys. But that is discouraged.

Click 'Access my Wallet', just beside 'Create a New Wallet'. That is the green one. After clicking on it, choose 'Software'. And there you will be asked which way you prefer to open your MEW, either 'Keystore File', 'Mnemonic Phrase', or 'Private Key.' Choose 'Private Key'.

It's still accessible if you have the private key. The procedure is like this.

Access my Wallet > Software > Private Key > Continue

I just opened the myetherwallet.com and it's accessible on my end. But, do correct me if I wrongly understood your question.

my friend, I can’t understand what the problem is.  The fact is that even the new MyetherWallet interface makes it possible to go to a certain section where all the details of the Myetherwallet wallet are indicated.  if you are on the central page of the wallet, then in the right corner there is a picture of a “copy machine”.  This is called a paper wallet.  if you hover over it with a computer mouse or tap your finger on the touch screen of your smartphone, a Paper Wallet with full information about your Ethereum wallet will open.  Look carefully again and you will succeed.

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It is unfortunate if you lose your private key, do you have a Keystrore File? if you have,
use it and you can open your wallet, if not, you might contact the  support from Myetherwallet

I addition to the above solution, if I am correct, you can import your private on forkdelta(I have tried that with etherdelta). In that case, you will not be needed to import on myetherwallet. However, do not worry and make a mistake by importing private key to any fake wallet.

A piece of quick advice; using your private key to enter in such decentralized exchange like forkdelta is kinda risky, you should try to use google chrome's extension which called metamask.
If you have still Keystore file, you can use it to set up your metamask extension and use metamask to log in in the forkdelta which will make you safer especially if Fork Delta got some flaws.

I don't think someone can help you even Myetherwallet if you lost your Keystore file or Private keys.

If you wanna access the vitage MEW and you can also still download it through use its github https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/etherwallet

I strongly recomended you to use mycrypto instead vintage MEW. What you need to do do download the desktop wallet of mycrypto and you can even open your privatekey even in the offline mode.

I really do not understand what you mean, whether you lost privatekey on myetherwallet or you can not enter myetherwallet with privatekey. but I hope you still have JSON so you can still access / view privatekey using another wallet. like metamask.trust wallet or ImToken

What OP is asking was, he can't see the location of his private key under the new look of myetherwallet. Because everything was changed and it is hard for new users to adjust for their new set up.

OP, you can see your private key by clicking the "print"
If you are using your mobile phone, you can see it beside your ethereum address,
And if you are using your pc/laptop, you can see it below your ethereum address.

I do not think it is in their intension to make us lose our funds since it is not going to be useful to them in any way. The only reason we might have to blame them is if someone checks his wallet address and discovers that his token(s) have disappeared.
Their intension might be to further safeguard the fund of users since there have been several loses in the past, when they were still using the vintage MEW.

I get it now guys, I just need to click the print button to show my private key again. thanks for your help this answers my problems. I can now sell again some o tokens in Forkdelta without using another eth wallet.