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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: How to recover a wallet with a passphrase on Electrum? on: March 07, 2018, 07:19:10 PM
Quote from: HCP on March 06, 2018, 09:50:33 PM
The wallet recovery services generally require that you have at least the btcrecover "extract" (which requires you to have the wallet file) or the wallet file itself. Without either of these, there is really no way that they can do anything...

Given that you can see the BTC on a block explorer, I assume this means you know the address and that the seed you have is not restoring a wallet that contains this address?

Unfortunately, if the seed you've got is generating a wallet with different addresses and you don't have the original wallet file... your chances of recovery are practically zero. Undecided

First thank you very much for helping me! Today I re installed electrum  using seed I had written down and left the password part unchecked, and there is my wallet with all the transactions from 2017, but its still not showing the btc that was deposited in it 3 days ago. So maybe there is some hope for me yet. The btc is still showing on blockchain with just the one transaction the move from coin base to electrum.When I made the deposit it was electrum 3.0.5, then I upgraded to the 3.1.0 version tried to restore the wallet and everything was gone, any chance the btc just hasnt caught up yet?

Last night windows updated and I unchecked show hidden files on my pc, so maybe thats let the old transactions show up, I dont know, but I do know that windows is updating again now, so maybe some more will show up? So basically Ive got my old wallet back showing all of 2017s transactions , the correct seed and the btc showing on blockchain.Is there anything I can do from here? thanks
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: How to recover a wallet with a passphrase on Electrum? on: March 06, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Quote from: HCP on March 06, 2018, 01:19:49 AM
Quote from: hd67xlch on March 05, 2018, 09:58:06 PM
I could use some help, I had a old electrum 2.8 wallet and installed the new upgrade off electrum. Then today I moved some btc to electrum and it showed up fine. I have my seed and password written down but the password doesnt work, so I tried recovering the wallet via the seed. I had no luck, now Ive created a new wallet and my btc are not there its showing a 0 balance even on the old walltet. Everytime I tried to recover the wallet it never asked me to do that it just keeps creating new wallets.
I assume the password was the wallet file password... and NOT a BIP39 passphrase (ie. extended seed with custom words).

If this is the case... how exactly are you trying to recover the wallet?

The menu options to use are: File -> New\Restore -> Standard -> I already have a seed

You should be able to then put in your Electrum seed, click next and it will regenerate the wallet.

Regardless of the "balance" showing, the important thing to check is that the addresses that have been regenerated are the same as your original wallet. Do you have a record anywhere of addresses that you used? (ie. a transaction history from another wallet/service that shows the address in your Electrum wallet that you sent coins to).

The reason the balance isn't as important, is that there may be syncing issues preventing the transaction history/balance from displaying... but as long as the addresses being generated are the same, then you should still be able to get access to your coins.

Thanks for your help, but I believe Ive deleted the wallet files by mistake. I can see the btc sitting there on blockchain, they have not been sent but the one time I sent them. I tried recovering the deleted wallet files but no luck, I guess this mean im SOL right? Its not a lot of $ just around $500, do any of these recovery services work if the wallet files are gone? thanks
3  Economy / Services / Re: USW Bitcoin Recovery Service on: March 06, 2018, 12:42:05 PM
Quote from: dolfje on January 05, 2018, 09:29:37 AM
I've added a poll to this thread. I want to know how many people already lost some Bitcoins. Just as an insight, as only persons who have lost Bitcoins come to my service.

Ive lost some btc, like an idiot I think I deleted all the hidden electrum wallet files  from my drive, I have what the password was but it keeps telling me invalid password, I definatley have the correct seed, because it lets me use it trying to restore the old wallet, but it just keeps creating new wallets without the btc. The coins have not been spent I see them on blockchain.

Going to contact you thanks
4  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: How to recover a wallet with a passphrase on Electrum? on: March 05, 2018, 09:58:06 PM
Quote from: TryNinja on March 04, 2018, 06:10:26 PM
If you are restoring a wallet with the seed, there is no need to insert a password.
If you are opening a wallet file that has a password, Electrum will ask for it.

I could use some help, I had a old electrum 2.8 wallet and installed the new upgrade off electrum. Then today I moved some btc to electrum and it showed up fine. I have my seed and password written down but the password doesnt work, so I tried recovering the wallet via the seed. I had no luck, now Ive created a new wallet and my btc are not there its showing a 0 balance even on the old walltet. Everytime I tried to recover the wallet it never asked me to do that it just keeps creating new wallets.

Thanks
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