What I have read is that I need to delete the Electrum directory, but I can't figure this one out. If anyone knows how to do this on a mac...I would love to give it a shot!
I was going to suggest downloading the portable version but I see that it's only available for Windows.
Here is a thread where someone asked how to create a new Electrum wallet on OS X (although it's from 2013 so the poster refers to electrum.dat which no longer exists):
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159450Relevant quote:
How do you create a new wallet?
I want a to make/get a new seed
I've used Electrum OSX!
Your wallet is located in your home directory in ~/.electrum
The wallet file is called 'electrum.dat'
If you want to create a new wallet (which will come from a new seed), you can use the terminal to rename the current wallet so the next time you run electrum, it will create a new wallet.
ie:
mv ~/.electrum/electrum.dat ~/.electrum/electrum.dat.old
So you could basically just rename the wallet file that you want to use.
More information about the wallet file on OS X from the Electrum wiki:
Where is my wallet file located?
The default wallet file is called default_wallet which is created when you first run the application and located under the /wallets folder...
On Mac
Open Finder
Go > Go to folder (shift+cmd+G) and type ~/.electrum
Link:
http://electrum.orain.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Where_is_my_wallet_file_located.3FThe Electrum wiki tends to be more up to date so unless you are running an older version, I would look for a file called default_wallet in ~/.electrum. The electrum.dat format seems to have been phased out in later releases:
Just installed new electrum and indeed there is no electrum.dat. Wallet file is now in wallets folder and called 'default_wallet'.