My Electrum client doesn't start any longer under OSX

[Norbert78]

Hi forum,
I'm only using electrum every now and then but today morning I experienced that it is not longer starting. I just downloaded the very latest version from the homepage and updated it but it does not start. When I start the client, It asks me, whether I want to connect to the server auomatically or manually. Regardless, what I choose, the window then disappears and no other window shows up. The console does not show any messages from electrum at all.
Does anybody have any idea, how I can convince electrum to start?

Thanks
Norbert

[kolloh]

Hi forum,
I'm only using electrum every now and then but today morning I experienced that it is not longer starting. I just downloaded the very latest version from the homepage and updated it but it does not start. When I start the client, It asks me, whether I want to connect to the server auomatically or manually. Regardless, what I choose, the window then disappears and no other window shows up. The console does not show any messages from electrum at all.
Does anybody have any idea, how I can convince electrum to start?

Thanks
Norbert

Does Electrum command line work? Try typing

Code:

electrum help

and

Code:

electrum listaddresses --funded

for example to see if you get any output or errors to display.

It is possible there is some error when reading your wallet file or something but it is odd that no error is being shown. You might have to try recreating the wallet (after backing up) and restoring your seed if the issue persists.

[Norbert78]

Thanks for the answer. Starting electrum from the command line does not work (command not found) but I'm wondering how it should be working. All I downloaded was the app in the Applications folder, so there is no command line program as far as I know.
I think that I can recreate my wallets from the seeds (as far as I understand that's all that I need) but before doing so, I need to get Electrum starting again :-(

[kolloh]

Thanks for the answer. Starting electrum from the command line does not work (command not found) but I'm wondering how it should be working. All I downloaded was the app in the Applications folder, so there is no command line program as far as I know.
I think that I can recreate my wallets from the seeds (as far as I understand that's all that I need) but before doing so, I need to get Electrum starting again :-(

Try backing up the ".electrum" folder within your user profile and then deleting or moving it which would force Electrum to recreate the folder. If there is something in your profile that is causing the issue, this should fix it I believe.

[Norbert78]

Deleting the .electrum folder did the trick!
Thanks!
Norbert

[ThomasV]

Try backing up the ".electrum" folder within your user profile and then deleting or moving it which would force Electrum to recreate the folder. If there is something in your profile that is causing the issue, this should fix it I believe.

thanks for your help.
maybe next time you could suggest to delete only the .electrum/config file, so the user keep their wallet data.

[kolloh]

Try backing up the ".electrum" folder within your user profile and then deleting or moving it which would force Electrum to recreate the folder. If there is something in your profile that is causing the issue, this should fix it I believe.

thanks for your help.
maybe next time you could suggest to delete only the .electrum/config file, so the user keep their wallet data.

Thanks for the info. Yeah, in the future, I'll suggest that they only delete the config file first to see if that resolve the issue that to avoid having to recreate the wallet and resync.