Hi Bitcoin Smith.

I follow those steps but when I enter my seed phrase it won’t let me hit next stating it’s a 2fa wallet. So I got back to the 2fa type in the seed click options extend this seed phrase I go next through the steps and it never prompts me to enter the extension and it recovers the empty wallet.

So I clicked the check box to add extra words but I never got prompted to input them. Am I missing something?

Hi sorry if this topic has been covered many times but I’m really confused about the wallet recovery process.

I’m trying to recover an old electrum bitcoin wallet and I’m having some issues. I have my 12 word seed phrase plus the extra words I added during the creation written down. So I go into electrum do a standard wallet recovery type in the 12 words, they all are auto filled, but after the last word it tells me it’s a 2FA wallet. Okay so I go back and do 2FA recovery. I don’t remember setting up 2FA but it works and I go to the next step, it asks for an Authenticator number, I open the Authenticator app and type in the number next to trustedcoin, says it’s the wrong number, click the button for a one time password, scan the qr, a new trustedcoin is added to my Authenticator and it works I’m in the wallet. Except the wallet is empty with no transactions and it says it’s synced to the network. Strange it didn’t ask me for the extra words I wrote down?

I also tired the same 12 words under the p2sh recovery option and I gained access to a wallet, but again it was empty with no transactions, and it was different from the 2fa wallet. Again it didn’t ask me for the extra words I have written down anyone know what’s up?

I have the SSD with the original install and wallet file from around 5 years ago at my parents house. I will get it when I visit them later this year.

Any help until then is appreciated.