I'm confused about how to do this. I cannot send the coins from this wallet since its a watch only wallet and i'm stuck. Can anybody help? When I try to restore the wallet with the seed to a new address it takes hours and hours and constantly says "please wait". Really frustrated
Can you try it on a different computer. Are you restoring it from the seed or something else. Check if there are an errors and the seed is at least 12 words (should be 13 if it's fairly new).
Try using a different/older version of electrum, get it off the site under " previous releases" from the download page.