Fixed. All I did was make a backup of all the contents in ~/.electrum, deleted the existing folder, and re-downloaded and ran the 2.8.3.5.dmg again from the official website. I re-entered my seed and did not choose to encrypt with a password (as advised by the OP). All my LTC is there . Thank you!!

I'll try that, thank you. Any thoughts on how trying a newer release version of the wallet might help? See my edit above.

Yeah, all the data is in /Users/[Username]/.electrum

There's the wallets folder you were talking about, and then there's a certs folder, and a bunch of files like blockchain_headers, config, daemon, recent_servers. Inside the wallets folder is my default_wallet where I stored my LTC. So you're saying I can just make a copy of this wallets folder somewhere on my computer and delete everything else, so long as I have my seed? I thought a seed was unique to that specific default_wallet file? If I were to completely restart I can still use my seed on a fresh install and it should work?

Edit to add: Also there is a new version of the electrum-ltc wallet from their official website. If I were to try and restore my wallet on this newer version do you think that would help or hurt? I've read their release notes on the website but I'm still a bit confused. Thanks for the help.

Hi,

I made an account just to ask about this because I am having the same problem. I am also very new to cryptocurrency. Everything that happened to you is also happening to me: This is my first time ever installing electrum-ltc-2.8.3.5.dmg from their official website. I own a mac. Like you, there is no option at all to recover my wallet. All I see when I try to run the application is it asks for a password for default_wallet, that's it. It refuses my password over and over but I know it's correct because I have accessed the wallet before--only since yesterday I haven't been able to access my wallet. Can you walk me through step-by-step how you managed to recover your wallet? Did you just uninstall and reinstall the application? I also have an encrypted wallet with a seed. I have both the seed and password written down and no one has access to them but me.

Thank you so much,

Jeff