For anyone still interested, I eventually got all my coins back without even trying. I really wish there were more active users and devs of DarkWallet - its just so awesome in concept, just the practice is just unworkable right now. I put in a significant amount of money into it the other day for a further test and left it going all night, but it just never mixed. The odd 50 dollars here and there will join just fine, and quick. But after 12 hours of waiting around for a larger sum to mix I'd had enough and removed my funds.

Am taking the advice of @shorena and going with the more established blockchain.info for now :-/ BitcoinFog isn't even working at all right now, and Samourai would definitely be my first choice if they had desktop support. But hey ho, we learn as we go.

Cheers for the help, chaps.

@franky1 - I went back to the last address in my history that is empty (well, I guess technically that would make it the first address in my history) and put 50 cents or so in there, and rescanned. It came out with more address results, but no more funds than were there prior. I'm definitely still short. Am I doing something wrong? I've put the breadth up to 4, and the address and pocket margins up to 20 each.

I keep coming up with 14 addresses no matter what.

Not quite sure why mods have deleted some of my posts -

I found this on the now defunct Darkwallet forums: thread title "Restore from seed does not add mixing addresses to balance" -

(note: you must set Darkwallet to developer mode internally first)

Try to scan the seed again, but now change the option Breadth to 4.

The scan tool looks for addresses until 10 consecutive empty addresses are found.
With the pockets it is similar, the scanner will look for 5 consecutive empty pockets.

But the Breadth option is fixed and is not bigger than 4.

Worked for me - got all (well, most of) my coins back.

These are good suggestions, and I am really grateful for your input. I had no idea that such a big company as blockchain.info would have CoinJoin integrated!

Have been mulling over Samourai for a while - they can be nothing but at least more hands on than Dark Wallet. I really do love the idea of decentralisation though - thats what Bitcoin is meant to be about!

Thanks, I do appreciate the list - of course I wouldn't keep the bulk of my funds in there! Like I say, I started with 3 USD and since have put in about 50 USD in various test transactions.

But it's not just a wallet, is it! None of those wallets mentioned on that list use Coinjoin, as far as I'm aware?

If you know of a better (and decentralised) alternative I would definitely like to try it.

Oh I found the 'breadth' option - you have to enable developer mode within Darkwallet. Immediately found 3 more addresses associated with my wallet, which would - I assume - be the remainder of my missing funds. Just gotta let it complete the scan now.

Thanks - there is a notice up on the page saying that darkwallet.com got squatted hence they are using darkwallet.is. Would explain why the lack of community support if the whole site got hijacked though...? 

Maybe I'm just pouring more money into the coffers for the scammers 

However, the fact that my bitcoins appear to be sitting at the same address without movement would indicate that they haven't run off with it. On the same note though - I am a n00b, and maybe its a ruse for me to add a decent amount before scarpering!

I tried out Darkwallet recently. I have to say I love it - the whole interface and experience really is genius....

However, this particular genius sitting right here - I decided to reset my browser but did not back up Darkwallet.

Anyway, I restored the wallet using the seed, I did at least copy that. Now I have the original addresses in my 'spending' wallet, but not the generated mixing addresses, where all my money went to.

I started by testing out the wallet with 3USD. That was never mixed and is still there. However, I put a bit more in and mixed it - and those addresses that were generated by mixing have gone from the wallet, and the addresses I renamed have gone back to 'unused'.

I can see the transaction in my history, and on Blockchain.info I can see the coins haven't moved from those addresses, so it's not like someone stole them.

How the bejesus do I get them back though??