New Wallet not synching and not verified

[TheBeginner]

Hi Forum,

I am very new to all this. Using Electrum.

I created a wallet and all was fine. It synched and is online (green light).

Now I made a new wallet with coins on it.

File - New wallet - standart wallet - Use public or private key

I inserted my private key and clicked okay. So far so good.

But Electrum stucked with synchonizing. I left the computer on for some hours. Nothing changed. Restarted the wallet. Changed the server. Not working. Deleted blockchain.py. No result.

There is some problem I don't understand.

Edit: Using Whonix.

[pooya87]

do NOT delete stuff unless you know what they do!
the "blockchain.py" file you deleted is part of the wallet that (if i am not mistaken) downloads chunks of the block headers and handles receiving, connecting, validating,...!

your problem should be fixed by closing the wallet and reopening it again.
and if you are using the latest version the issue with the corrupted blockchain_headers file should be fixed. and if not, that is the file you could have deleted!

[TheBeginner]

Okay. Of course I saved the file and restored it already.

I closed and opened the wallet several times, but that did not help. If opening my default wallet at the same time, the default wallet was ready and connected.

[Cereberus]

Okay. Of course I saved the file and restored it already.

I closed and opened the wallet several times, but that did not help. If opening my default wallet at the same time, the default wallet was ready and connected.

I use electrum and have several wallets for several purposes with the latest version. If the default wallet loads correctly and synchronizes correctly so should another wallet if you created it from the beginning FILE/NEW or if you open an existing one from FILE/OPEN. Now if you imported another wallet into electrum ,are you sure it is supported by electrum wallet and it uses BIP39 as far as I know in the latest version, so if your PRIVATE KEY that you inserted is from a wallet which do not support BIP39 Electrum will never open it I am afraid.

[HCP]

File - New wallet - standart wallet - Use public or private key
I inserted my private key and clicked okay. So far so good.

What format was the private key in?

Was it a WIF key? ie. 5Kb8kLf9zgWQnogidDA76MzPL6TsZZY36hWXMssSzNydYXYB9KF

or was it an xprv? ie. xprv9s21ZrQH143K3QTDL4LXw2F7HEK3wJUD2nW2nRk4stbPy6cq3jPPqjiChkVvvNKmPGJxWUtg6Ln F5kejMRNNU3TGtRBeJgk33yuGBxrMPHi

or was it something else? (NOTE: do not post it here! )

Also, did this private key belong to an address with a LOT of transactions?

[TheBeginner]

Afaik it was an WIF Key. Generated by an ATM. I don't think the address had a LOT of transactions. Still unsure what the problem was.

I could open it with another software. Not my prefered way, but it worked.