Multibit sent 1.1 BTC to Electrum shows 0.3958 pending????

[jubalix]

I am trying different clients, so I sent 1.1 BTC from Multibit to Electrum...however Electrum shows that only 0.3958 is pending at that address??

I note that both the multibit and Electrum have a common address (some other address due to private key loads) and it maybe that the 1.1 was made up from some of the common address, and so maybe Electurm only looks at the difference....but this does not seem to make sense, 1.1 BTC should end up at the address  sent to regardless......!!!!

what has happened here? any ideas???

EDIT ok I deleted the common address from electrum, and it resolved the issue, so, some sort of wierd accounting going on in elctrum...possibly a bug, it seems to adding only net difference on all addresses, not total to and address,

this still a bug though inmho

[jim618]

A good place to start is to look at the details of the transaction ie what inputs it consumes and what outputs the bitcoin is sent to.

You can see this in MultiBit by going to the 'Transactions' tab and doing a right click. Select 'Show transaction details...'. If you look in the 'Raw transaction' box you will see something like:

3c2e140d1587922f40ace45eaa12479a18f1fc8d67d9545d9f70dab902041af4: Seen by 4 peers. Appeared in best chain at height 232004, depth 3, work done 115634688111013545.
     from 19nCc2DfmorX2nuZ3k1DkkPLbbAj1k8GP9 / f094c7283308526c50d12d0448a06389ff337faed6488a1f4e635de3b2daa673:1
       to 1GqtGtn4fctXuKxsVzRPSLmYWN1YioLi9y 0.016 BTC
       to 19nCc2DfmorX2nuZ3k1DkkPLbbAj1k8GP9 1.04071834 BTC

(this is one of my transactions taken at random).


Next you have to figure out which addresses are in which wallets.
Typically the net amount is "amount sent to wallet - amount sent from wallet".

If you have the same private key in different wallets you have to go through each wallet and look at the comings and goings from the perspective of THAT wallet. (Generally it is a lot easier not to have the same private key in two wallets as it can be confusing).