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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Cannot restore BTC addresses on: October 12, 2022, 10:06:50 AM
Your other funds could be in your change address at higher index.

Try to manually generate change addresses with, open console:
Code:
[wallet.create_new_address(True) for i in range(600)]

Just tried it. Even to 2000, nothing changes with the balance. Also tried to find this exact address by using ismine(‘address’) and the answer in console was false
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Cannot restore BTC addresses on: October 12, 2022, 09:35:15 AM
Strange, indeed.
I have tried
Code:
wallet.change_gap_limit(50)
and it worked perfectly. Do you use the latest version of Electrum? (4.3.2)
As I understand you do not see addresses in "Addresses" tab, right? The issue is not that you see addresses but the balance (transaction history) is not updated?

If you execute
Code:
wallet.create_new_address(False)
do you see expected new address?


Yes, Latest version. But when my wallet stopped working it wasn’t the latest version of electrum. For now I tried this code in the latest version and it didn’t help. I have few thousands $ on the balance, but it shows 0btc. Also the address didn’t show up.

I will try another code in 8 hours when I will be able to connect to the internet and will let you know.
3  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Cannot restore BTC addresses on: October 12, 2022, 08:33:55 AM
I tried it, no new addresses appeared, I tried to increase gap limit to 1000 even. Now when I load electrum, it loaded 1000 addresses, but actually I don’t see it as well as transactions. Also tried to find the BTC address in the same way. The reply from the system was “false”.

Do you have balance on each address or there are big gaps between founded addresses? Do you know how many missing addresses you have until the first founded address, where you are sure there was any transaction?

I have balances only until 12/2021. There are 250 missing addresses, most of them were paid. I made transaction myself to this address, so I’m sure money are there. I also checked by the address on electrum (watch mode, money was there), on blockchain there is no sign that it was withdrawn, so wallet wasn’t hacked as well.

Also, as you can read in my first message, money was there, I tried to withdraw it and then the error appeared. So I’m sure money is on the wallet.
4  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Cannot restore BTC addresses on: October 12, 2022, 08:25:21 AM
Increase the gap limit to 500 addresses.

To increase the gap limit, open the console and use this command:

Quote
wallet.change_gap_limit(50)

I tried it, but unfortunately it didn’t help, too. I read many topics on the forum before creating new one. I’m already willing to give 500$ to anybody who would give useful advice. Nothing was created automatically, only manually during the year, most of the addresses were paid.
5  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Cannot restore BTC addresses on: October 12, 2022, 08:12:30 AM
I tried it, no new addresses appeared, I tried to increase gap limit to 1000 even. Now when I load electrum, it loaded 1000 addresses, but actually I don’t see it as well as transactions. Also tried to find the BTC address in the same way. The reply from the system was “false”.
6  Bitcoin / Electrum / Cannot restore BTC addresses on: October 12, 2022, 07:14:44 AM
Hello. Yesterday I received BTC to my electrum wallet that I’ve been using for a year now. Then an error with electrum appeared, when I tried to send these bitcoins to my another address, new window opened on my Mac and told that I have error with electrum and whether I want to inform electrum about it or no. I clicked no and reloaded my laptop. When I tried to open electrum once again, it said that default_wallet (my wallet) doesn’t exist. It was shocking as I’ve been using electrum since 2018 and never had such issues.

After that, I restored my wallet with seed phrase, but there is a problem: I had almost 500 addresses and only half of it restored. The last history of transaction is in December, but I’ve been using this wallet until 11th October. Bitcoins are not gone and are on blockchain (only received), I also could see this transaction in watch-mode after putting my BTC address of receipt. But unfortunately, I cannot restore this address and see my balance. (Increase Gap limit etc didn’t help). Would appreciate any help.
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