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

Hi all,

i am not very tech-savvy but i have tried to follow various instructions including https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transferring_coins_from_Bitcoin-Qt_to_Electrum but i get stuck when trying to dumpprivkey

This is what i have done in bitcoin core:

Click Help -> Debug. Click the Console tab.

getaccountaddress ""

this gave me an address which i tried to get a private key from:

14:02:00       dumpprivkey <1765Qi3z1iFiATjgPCuVXvP2pD7SYuM37o>

14:02:29       Invalid Bitcoin address (code -5)

i then tried to get more addresses:

getaddressesbyaccount ""

which gave me 6 more address

I tried to dumpprivkey with each but got the same message every time

Invalid Bitcoin address (code -5)

I have also tried to do the same thing with addresses i know i have had coins sent to in the past but i get the same problem

The reason i want to do this is that i cannot synchronize the wallet on my computer as i don't have enough space and i think it would take weeks anyway

any advice would be gratefully received and please remember i am fairly stupid so go easy on me!

Thanks