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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: XVG in "watching only" Electrum Wallet on: May 04, 2018, 03:31:27 PM
If wallet_1 gives you other addresses apart from
Code:
DBEutBSzYUzyjDSA1zDWtofPDVJXuepbC3
then you have the wrong seed (either a word is wrong/different or the order is wrong)

It's impossible for a wallet to be watch only when you create it with a seed phrase so my guess is that you pasted the address instead in the first place.

Go to the console (menu -> console) then paste
Code:
ismine("DBEutBSzYUzyjDSA1zDWtofPDVJXuepbC3")
and see if it shows true or false.
If it shows false then you definitely have a wrong seed.

I'm guessing that must be the case. Unfortunately, wallet_1 did show up as 'false' after pasting in that code Sad

I obviously wasn't careful enough when setting this up and am unfortunately paying the consequences of it!

Thanks everyone for you help - appreciate everyone's time and insight with this one. Just a shame there won't be a happy ending!
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: XVG in "watching only" Electrum Wallet on: May 01, 2018, 09:31:49 PM
Not sure if this is relevant, but the “watching only” wallet is the default wallet that opens when I launch the app on my Mac. This happens even after restoring the other wallet using my only seed phrase, and closing it afterwards.

unless there is a bug, your wallet always opens the last closed wallet. it is written in your config file under "gui_last_wallet".
to determine whether you can recover your funds or not, you first have to determine how that watch only wallet was created on your  computer.
was it you who created a watch only wallet from another wallet that you have access to its keys?
or was it a malware, or is it a fake Electrum-XVG wallet that you have installed?
or...?

I don't remember creating any additional wallets tbh. I created one wallet when I first installed the OSX wallet from https://vergecurrency.com/wallets/, so don't think it's a fake wallet. I only recorded one seed as I thought I only had one wallet. The 'wallet_1' in my previous post was only created recently to see if the seed I had corresponded with my wallet which has my XVG in. That 'wallet 1' comes from the only seed I have recorded. I don't have any other records of any other private keys or seeds for any other wallets.
3  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: XVG in "watching only" Electrum Wallet on: May 01, 2018, 09:23:50 PM
Possibly your coins are gone.

I would ask if you could take a look at the data directory just in case the wallet file isn't completely deleted.
Could you take a screenshot of both wallets. Is the watching only wallet just one address? Did you try increasing the gap limit?

Thanks for everyone's responses. Appreciate the insight and the help.

jackg - I've taken screenshots of everything you asked for here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m72nbgmdq962du6/AAAjVw1nUkyZDXbA0LkJa5aKa?dl=0

It turns out that I have three wallets:

  • 'default_wallet' and 'XVG Wallet' are both the same in that they're both 'watching only' and both contain the same, single address and XVG amount.(
  • 'wallet_1' is the only wallet that I generated/recorded a seed for and it's showing a balance of 0XVG  Cry
4  Bitcoin / Electrum / XVG in "watching only" Electrum Wallet on: April 30, 2018, 03:44:40 PM
Hi guys,

I transferred some XVG from Binance to my OSX Electrum Wallet (v4.0) from https://vergecurrency.com/wallets/ back in March. When creating the wallet, I made a note of the seed and used the generated address to successfully send the XVG to. I now have the currency in my wallet, but it’s saying “watching only” on the top bar and I can’t transfer my XVG to any other wallet.

I fear that I generated a different wallet for the address I sent the XVG to as when I try to restore the wallet using the seed I have, it successfully restores a wallet, but shows a balance of 0 XVG. I’m fairly certain that the wallet is fully sychronized as well, as it’s showing the green dot on the bottom left. I don’t have any other record of seeds or private keys unfortunately.

Not sure if this is relevant, but the “watching only” wallet is the default wallet that opens when I launch the app on my Mac. This happens even after restoring the other wallet using my only seed phrase, and closing it afterwards.

As a last, desperate attempt before admitting loss of my funds, is there anything else I could do which anyone could suggest to transfer these funds out of this “watching only” wallet?
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