First post and i am a wreck

[Noobiest]

I used coinbase and trasferered $5 into my electrum account as a test. Everything worked fine so i sent a semi large $400 deposit and now my electrum says not connected, i am new to bitcoin i found it very interesting and i am love all the new tech stuff. But this is a lot of bitcoin and i haven't the slightest idea how to handle this. Can somebody please lend me a hand i just started learning ubuntu so its linux that i run. Can somebody with expertise walk a noob through this? I am up at 3;30 am stressing this. Ughhh

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[RustyNomad]

Check towards the bottom right, if not connected you should see a red circle/dot there. Click on it and check if 'Auto-connect' is selected. If not then select it and click OK at the bottom.

You can also go through the menu's by going to Tools -> Network.

See if that helps

[defcon23]

I used coinbase and trasferered $5 into my electrum account as a test. Everything worked fine so i sent a semi large $400 deposit and now my electrum says not connected, i am new to bitcoin i found it very interesting and i am love all the new tech stuff. But this is a lot of bitcoin and i haven't the slightest idea how to handle this. Can somebody please lend me a hand i just started learning ubuntu so its linux that i run. Can somebody with expertise walk a noob through this? I am up at 3;30 am stressing this. Ughhh

it's looks like a server issue. have you tried to change of server  in the list? just do it and it should solve your issue.

Kind regards

[ca333]

I used coinbase and trasferered $5 into my electrum account as a test. Everything worked fine so i sent a semi large $400 deposit and now my electrum says not connected, i am new to bitcoin i found it very interesting and i am love all the new tech stuff. But this is a lot of bitcoin and i haven't the slightest idea how to handle this. Can somebody please lend me a hand i just started learning ubuntu so its linux that i run. Can somebody with expertise walk a noob through this? I am up at 3;30 am stressing this. Ughhh

Like RustyNomad said this is only a sync (connection) problem. Do not worry.


1. Click on the red dot (eventually its a syncing symbol)


2. Now activate the auto-connect:


You should connect to network now.

regards,
ca333


#EDIT: Enzyme (the poster below) dropped a good clue: ALWAYS SECURE (BACKUP) YOUR PRIVATE-KEYS or the wallet SEED! This is very very important. Best thing is to print out on paper and hide at secret safe place.
In future do this BEFORE you transfer BTC to your wallet. (You can still do it afterwards, even offline, but i recommend to do it at very beginning)

[Enzyme]

Even if you can't connect, this shouldn't be a problem. If all else fails, find out how to extract your private key (or seed) from the client and use it on a stable machine.

[twister]

You haven't lost your bitcoins, firstly check your bitcoin address at a block explorer like blockchain.info and it should show that the coins are still there, now if you're on ubuntu and a slower connection Electrum can sometimes take a while to connect, change your servers by clicking on the red dot and selecting a server manually. Restart electrum and it should connect, just leave it running for a while. And turn off the torrents or any other downloads you have running.

[torusJKL]

Maybe you are behind a firewall (corporate network) that does not allow to use all ports.
In this case try to deactivate the auto sync and choose an Electrum server that uses the common 80 or 443 port.

If you are in a hurry to spend the bitcoins you can always export the private key and import it to a blockchain.info wallet.