thanks third space, that did it!

I am back again with another query

i am trying to claim my BCH from this old wallet but every time i try and sweep the private keys i have it says 'no input found'

i have tried using the 2 private keys i successfully swept for BTC in my new  electrum wallet but got the same result

are they not the correct keys? do i need to find some others?

thanks

ok, thanks for the advice, i think i will stick with Bitcoin cash for now and see how things develop with BCG

i will definitely take the precautions you recommend

many thanks!

brilliant!

restarting worked first time, thanks for telling me to do that, i was a little nervous

i have a couple of private keys from an old bitcoin core wallet as well

do i just go to

wallet>private keys>sweep

and then enter the private keys?

Also, any recommendations for claiming anything else? i think i can get some bitcoin gold as well

cheers

Hi all, i am not very tech savvy but i have had a go at trying to claim my Bitcoin Cash from BTC i had in my electrum wallet at the time of the fork

this is what i did:

moved all the BTC out of my electrum wallet
installed electron cash wallet on another computer
created a new wallet using the seed from my electrum wallet
waited for it to synchronize........

...i am still waitng

I am doing this on a mac with OS 10.13.2 High sierra
the electron cash version is  3.1.2

It seemed to accept the seed i entered but it just says 'synchronizing' in the bottom left hand corner and no history has appeared

It has been like this for around 20 hours now

Have i done something wrong?

Please keep any suggestions as simple as possible as i really am in over my head here

thanks very much for your time

cool, i will send a little bitcoin cash to the address in your profile then

is it safe to install the electrum cash wallet on the same machine? i have read you should empty your electrum wallet and do it on another machine. maybe thats over cautious?

OMG i think i have done it!!

thanks mocacinno this worked:

If you don't want to do this, you should export the private key belonging to the change address of the last transaction that was confirmed...

I looked at the transaction, found the 'change address', dumped the private key for that and then went to electrum and did a sweep and its now showing as an unconfirmed transaction

the other address i swept earlier how now confirmed so hopefully this one will do the same

can i buy you a beer seeing as its friday night?

sorry, i see what you have said now, its all way above my level of understanding so i am struggling to understand much!

i will have a look at that

sorry, what i am saying is that no Bitcoin directory has been created at all on my MAC

it should be here - ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin but there is no /bitcoin folder

back for some more questions i am afraid

i have located the file on my PC

C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin

i have installed bitcoin core and it is running on my mac but no bitcoin folder has been created here:

~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin

I have tried the same thing on another PC in the house and the same issue exists - no bitcoin folder in which to find and swap the wallet.dat file

i dont have to wait for it to sync for it to create this folder do i?

cheers

i dont know how that has happened, i sent them as tests over a week ago and they dropped into my coinbase account 2 days ago, i did not import the private keys

i am completely baffled!

thanks, i will make sure to do that

i bet i will struggle with it all though! thanks again

sorry, i missed the last part of your last reply

i will try and do that on another computer with more space

thanks so much, i will let you know if works!

so there is some hope?

i dont have space to synchronize my wallet so do i need to get an external harddrive or something?

sorry, i know nothing!

oops, i posted publicly, oh well, hopefully thats ok

so does that mean i have lost the 1.4 BTC? how can that be?

Hi, i am not sure i should post this publicly so thoguht i would PM you if thats ok

i have exported the entire history of my wallet

Confirmed   Date   Type   Address   Amount   ID
FALSE   2018-01-26T10:47:16   Sent to   1MD9ARDM2yMJWK35krRnknNB7XGXVbRQnU   -0.01893046   2294cb80792a03cb6255961b6908b8254569a77c519eca460c197a49fd3f94e5-000
TRUE   2018-01-14T09:51:21   Sent to   15pWWFAPC7xGsTHNhaWcicRADnRGf63p1P   -0.0105   62dc19dfe170b19f8d585b2cdfc68e6dd9f42261258089116c62b238404ab4e7-000
TRUE   2018-01-13T21:04:04   Sent to   12uYtCkeNxMrJRrV5wfZhUCdDiJ79UA2mz   -0.1005   4fc63c6079b562c527585759cabed2257daaf098ac1d1cde6a119177e0e0423b-000
TRUE   2018-01-13T12:09:06   Sent to   1LccZXvhsMPHbKYMk2kGXxLYdo4piJNWGM   -0.0105   75312e248dba6e72b25d35e2df618aca5cbc43b72680922cd6c7264ac9cb4bdf-000
TRUE   2018-01-12T16:23:05   Sent to   16FHEPFYMiZ6eYnu3Mn6xQJrV88ctXHwYW   -0.01   831498f8ee2c210182b65862a51c931723e43122b019d20ab3bc6474fe2d5085-000
TRUE   2018-01-12T15:39:39   Sent to   16NsQfXHt93v88eS3Gt89KTQDMHsHdZm5Y   -0.0105   b916fe303317977033e0ef3ee14ec6cd3a20cd3c2050c257f87118ea2456f591-000
TRUE   2014-03-28T15:50:22   Sent to   15EC9F1PtcaJYAZhCRNqfMmB4qoFC4oCQ7   -0.0015   646b9f0b3da6daa9e960c6432f2fa35fe470ed15f5743a5cb7f04f7cfbfe1baa-000
TRUE   2013-11-13T19:53:39   Sent to   1FsdYR2AMwAxajx8SWExCvmGmQeUr5w9NE   -0.03474039   9732bc17cd2d3468a1af8e3c3f83a67e87e45b865f10dcc8e15904e1c80da955-000
TRUE   2013-08-30T16:49:06   Sent to   16GkT88ZPcRdsqSM4Bnd7exweRWDekJntV   -0.1185   d50f99784e8bf9fe2e1a504cf7c1074e08ac7de27a84769e19ca96cf095a917c-000
TRUE   2013-08-30T16:17:29   Sent to   1DQWptH63n35hU2LksPNU28CKrpLyCAnb   -0.13659029   2f87f095450b7427e1349e2bcd547d84da4fec01d01beb91cc7244c3d3e2abe3-000
TRUE   2013-07-24T09:05:18   Sent to   1CzyB8ja1EKvBNYEenHMcRh57DNakFQvLj   -0.17153829   56e734f3f5df475f81469a339eb908e8f3e9f941f4ce36cf8d8febc6da24325c-000
TRUE   2013-07-11T09:34:56   Sent to   1MJqiqJixPAF11RmUEEAxGbf6wnUEvoHoT   -0.43735742   5c58d346217aacc10e74c430ffc87863969a1522cc761d2be08ddbe11b00518d-000
TRUE   2013-07-10T12:52:46   Sent to   1HqWcLB86YQdrGWYKhfVoqo6zFqGXtyvvb   -0.2122773   70bb3f3aac2c44c17c0464ac754c3782af63fc55b1e2095affa074f18dec4180-000
TRUE   2013-06-14T15:27:38   Received with   14G3Tr7PAb2L8xZKy2ib7MH9MscXHkQphj   0.20246875   3fae9880f8a3dc9641a24114f5ab2fd502ae47a179478f5b360ee3c9156c1be1-000
TRUE   2013-06-14T15:09:15   Sent to   1EEbWG1ckF9FGPjL4FSM1wQJryv3pApmAT   -0.20296875   83e7b0b792ec52e144adf74a3a68892202863955f3fde8bb8f9619c3e8a06a06-000
TRUE   2013-05-14T16:41:20   Received with   12zMmbzU5VrfdsjqpN5gnwNt65kJW7HaKb   2.707   422c742829cc69aca4767536f659a7efbc5d88e5b58a3c52a425425240e2d17e-000

i am getting very confused to tell the truth

my wallet says i have a balance of 1.43306585 BTC

as you can see from the transaction history nothing much has come or gone since 2013

hi, i am using v0.8 - i had not opened it for 3 years!

i tried the dump wallet again:


13:13:28

dumpwallet C:\Users\james\Desktop\output_file.txt


13:13:44

Method not found (code -32601)

here is the raw transaction:

13:16:09

getrawtransaction 62dc19dfe170b19f8d585b2cdfc68e6dd9f42261258089116c62b238404ab4e7


13:16:21

01000000013b42e0e07791116ade1c1dac98f0aa7d25d2beca59575827c562b579603cc64f01000 0006b483045022100d7941f5c8ae049ae6ff3f52839f6856dca6ff615ba374a05470d81affab794 1b02201eb51600cb26ecf6c7462f286efc1c8197d2180d4d4ca36511c004cce5445e98012102f3c b1e7405969a9bff0654ee2f6251edff6d881af90bc1ee9c242e1c011d7ca3ffffffff0259af8a08 000000001976a9143bb1574c54e3ce0abf20da59edc15cf49bd3bf4488ac40420f0000000000197 6a91434dcaea586fdaf251ec7460a79201374a490f62b88ac00000000


thanks again!

thanks for stickign with me!

ok, i tried this


11:12:40

dumpwallet "C:\path_to_your\output_file.txt"


11:12:40

Method not found (code -32601)

i though maybe i should change it:


11:10:09

dumpwallet "C:\Users\james\Desktop\output_file.txt"


11:10:09

Method not found (code -32601)

so not sure what i am doing wrong there

I did the rawtransaction thing and got a big load of letters and numbers

what should i do with that and what effect will me doing it have?

thanks again for all your help!

i have to go out for a while now so will check back in a but

cheers

thanks mocacinno i have managed to sweep the 2nd transaction and its showing as unconfirmed in my electrum wallet

as for the 1st transaction i am very confused

is it a transaction i tried to send from my QT wallet to another address in the past?

If so, and it failed, should it not still be in my wallet?

i cannot work out what the private key is for that transaction

if i do as bob123 says will i get all the private keys?

i don't quite understand this: dumpwallet "C:\path_to_your\output_file.txt"

i guess i need to change it somehow but i am unsure of how

sorry, this is driving me a bit mental!

Hi, no it has not synced yet and i dont have the space which is why i want to use electrum instead

i tried listunspent 0 and it showed a couple of transactions

does that mean they have been sent sent form my wallet some how without me knowing?


[
{
"txid" : "62dc19dfe170b19f8d585b2cdfc68e6dd9f42261258089116c62b238404ab4e7",
"vout" : 0,
"scriptPubKey" : "REMOVED AS I DONT KNOW IF ITS SAFE TO SHOW?",
"amount" : XREMOVEDXX,
"confirmations" : 0
},
{
"txid" : "b916fe303317977033e0ef3ee14ec6cd3a20cd3c2050c257f87118ea2456f591",
"vout" : 1,
"scriptPubKey" : "REMOVED AS I DONT KNOW IF ITS SAFE TO SHOW?",
"amount" : XREMOVEDXX,
"confirmations" : 0
}
]