Rushed back up, no coin

[BlazingHashes]

Hi, I had to back up and wipe my laptop in a hurry, I have now reinstalled but now I have no coin. I copied the whole Electrum folder from program files when I backed up, and tried swapping the folders after reinstallation. I entered my seed but my balance is 0. Have i lost my btc, or can my wallet still be recovered?

Thanks

[ranochigo]

If your seed is correct and you have Bitcoins inside any of your addresses, your balance shouldn't be 0. On the lower right, do you see a green dot?

Could you recall what address did you send Bitcoins to? If yes, go to console and type

Code:

ismine("ADDRESSHERE")

. Replacing the address accordingly.

[HCP]

The program files directory does not include wallet files. It only includes the actual application files. The program data is usually stored in the %appdata%\Electrum directory.

On recent versions of windows, this is usually something like: C:\users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Electrum

There is a folder there called "wallets" that contains all the wallet files you've created.

However, you should still be able to recover using just your seed.

[kolloh]

You should be able to recover the entire wallet using just the seed. You may want to try checking the BIP39 box when entering your seed to check if it was a BIP39 seed if your coins weren't showing up when entering it normally.

[BlazingHashes]

Thanks for the replies. I have tried the ismine command on the console but it just keeps saying "false", and ticking the BIP39 box, made no difference.

I go file/ new/restore, i name wallet, then choose standard, click already have seed, enter seed, leave bip account as 0, enter new password, then end up with another empty wallet. Why do I keep having to entering a new password? It doesn't even give me the opportunity to use the password that I already have..

I know it's all spelt right as I copied, pasted, and printed it out.

[kolloh]

Thanks for the replies. I have tried the ismine command on the console but it just keeps saying "false", and ticking the BIP39 box, made no difference.

I go file/ new/restore, i name wallet, then choose standard, click already have seed, enter seed, leave bip account as 0, enter new password, then end up with another empty wallet. Why do I keep having to entering a new password? It doesn't even give me the opportunity to use the password that I already have..

I know it's all spelt right as I copied, pasted, and printed it out.

When you create a new wallet, you are assigning a new password to the wallet. Electrum doesn't know anything about your existing wallet's password.

[HCP]

If the seed was created in Electrum, then you shouldn't use the BIP39 option when restoring your account.

If you end up with a zero balance when restoring, then you either have the wrong seed... or your addresses containing coins are beyond the "gap-limit". By default, Electrum will stop looking once it finds 20 unused addresses. If you goto the console and try:

Code:

for x in range(0, 50):
     print wallet.create_new_address(False)

It will generate the next 50 addresses in your wallet... It might be worth trying that to see if you find anything.

Just to confirm, with the seed you are using, you are not finding ANY history right? There are no transactions showing? If that is the case, I'd probably guess that your seed is wrong.

[Abdussamad]

Thanks for the replies. I have tried the ismine command on the console but it just keeps saying "false", and ticking the BIP39 box, made no difference.

I go file/ new/restore, i name wallet, then choose standard, click already have seed, enter seed, leave bip account as 0, enter new password, then end up with another empty wallet. Why do I keep having to entering a new password? It doesn't even give me the opportunity to use the password that I already have..

I know it's all spelt right as I copied, pasted, and printed it out.

You don't have to enter a password. You can leave it blank. But it will mean that anyone or any program with access to your PC will be able to spend your bitcoins.

[BlazingHashes]

I tried:  for x in range(0, 50):
      print wallet.create_new_address(False)

but just got:  Traceback (most recent call last):
    print wallet.create_new_address(False)
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
>> for x in range(0, 50):
    print wallet.create_new_address(False)

I was given a random password to save, when I was given the seed by Electrum. Is that of any use here, or is it just a wallet password like I keep generating when creating a new wallet?

[Abdussamad]

The seed consists of 12 English words. Is that what you are calling a random password?

[HCP]

That code has to be typed on 2 lines... so type:

Code:

for x in range(0,50):

and then press enter, you should then see "..." appear.


Then type a couple of spaces (I usually use 2, but whatever you like) and the next line of code:

Code:

  print wallet.create_new_address(False)

and then press enter a couple of times and it should generate your new addresses... NOTE: You'll also want to do the same thing and use "True":

Code:

for x in range(0,50):
  print wallet.create_new_address(True)

to generate some new change addresses in case your coins were in a change address.

NOTE: you may need to close and re-open your wallet to get the new addresses to show

[jonald_fyookball]

there is also a python script i wrote to brute force the seed if you had one word wrong.  if all else fails here, try that one.