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December 09, 2017, 02:09:08 PM
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I sent funds from my Electrum wallet (on Ubuntu 14.04) several days ago without an adequate fee and it will not confirm.  Ever since, anything I do to try to fix the problem doesn't work, including increasing the fee.

So, OK, I was just transferring money between accounts, so I try instead to send another transaction with a higher fee.  But this time, my wallet says I don't have sufficient funds. Specifically, even though the History page says I should have mBTC 1,700+ if the unconfirmed transaction goes through (and almost mBTC 1,900 if it doesn't), any effort I make to send is blocked because of insufficient funds for any amount over 91 mBTC.

I tried to recreate the wallet using my seed, but the new wallet has the same problem.  I tried changing servers, but same problem.  I even updated from 3.01 to 3.02, but no joy.

Can anyone give me some advice?  Have I found a bug here?  If so, should I file a report?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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December 09, 2017, 02:27:27 PM
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I sent funds from my Electrum wallet (on Ubuntu 14.04) several days ago without an adequate fee and it will not confirm.  Ever since, anything I do to try to fix the problem doesn't work, including increasing the fee.

So, OK, I was just transferring money between accounts, so I try instead to send another transaction with a higher fee.  But this time, my wallet says I don't have sufficient funds. Specifically, even though the History page says I should have mBTC 1,700+ if the unconfirmed transaction goes through (and almost mBTC 1,900 if it doesn't), any effort I make to send is blocked because of insufficient funds for any amount over 91 mBTC.

I tried to recreate the wallet using my seed, but the new wallet has the same problem.  I tried changing servers, but same problem.  I even updated from 3.01 to 3.02, but no joy.

Can anyone give me some advice?  Have I found a bug here?  If so, should I file a report?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

If you go to the addresses tab and right click the address(es) with bitcoin in them and get their private keys and sweep the coins into a new wallet.

Also, what about your transaction id? Can you post that so we can see the fee and determine if it's enough to cover the transaction being submitted to the network and get confirmed.
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December 09, 2017, 08:08:57 PM
Last edit: November 15, 2023, 08:24:47 AM by HCP
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Maybe you've set Electrum to only spend confirmed coins Huh

Tools -> Preferences -> Transactions -> UNCHECK "spend only from confirmed coins":



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