I saw another topic with this name, but thought it would be a better idea to start a new topic for my own problem.
I have an old seed, from one of the original releases, and I've checked that at least a few of the words are in the old words list. Should it take a long time to recover history from such a seed? I assume it could probably take hours, or possibly days.
EDIT: I still have an old electrum.dat if that matters.
If you have the seed it will take no time at all.
Just download the 2.1.1 version, recover wallet, enter seed, enjoy...