trying to recover my wallet with my seed but it just creates new wallets

[HI-TEC99]

yeah I have no problem doing that but when I try to transfer the funds out of the old wallet it still asks me for the old password. so my funds are stuck in that wallet even though I have the seed for it

Can you try installing an electrum on a windows computer instead of on tails, then restoring from your seed on the windows version of electrum?

[andreibi]

I recreated a wallet from seed in my windows version of electrum. These screenshots show the exact steps I made. Try doing it that way, if it's any different to what you were already doing.

The seed above gives:
1KEDyPxsmzEEURrLAs43MUqssen6ndpwGy KwHU3RrT1qy2QBtW4zm2dgtHFy5L9rs7Cj7otT9y9wWC8b6ZaemG
1FGQA84jtbS1PBVhFAbaXX3DmndxFKqvEK L4yNzabSPuJQ2nGP6w5jUpnzUMTVMZn2su9z4KJEcDboZAEA77u6
etc
etc

OR:
14jBEkRx8cgYX51qJ5dW8YTBq5WuZGDBhq   Kz11sFBuuEfYUJpnwidJTzYTRr3881r5q1fUEahznf68zcGhtrje
1DGPBHNDmQPjXXbmSS2inskfsxLXgsjHA7   Kx2KzNNSGAL62Hdxh8BAUgKrp5H86CV6awNFeSs14KjjNHm8usD5

Use https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/

[m1n3r34]

thank a lot, ill definitely try that. I just gotta run to work now, so if that dosent work, ill be back

[Abdussamad]

yeah I have no problem doing that but when I try to transfer the funds out of the old wallet it still asks me for the old password. so my funds are stuck in that wallet even though I have the seed for it

When you use file> new/restore you are creating a new wallet. Use file > open to open that wallet. Stop using your old wallet that has the password.

In your restored wallet look under "used" on the addresses tab to see if there are familiar addresses. If you are not seeing familiar addresses then you haven't successfully restored your wallet. In that case make sure the seed you have contains words from the electrum dictionary:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/wordlist/english.txt

I also suggest restoring with the latest version of electrum. 2.8.3 is the latest. You should download it form electrum.org and install it. It may be hard to do that on TAILS so install it on the OS you have on your hard drive.

Also note that in 2.8.3 you have to press ctrl+a to bring the addresses tab into view.

[jonald_fyookball]

are you sure its not a gap limit issue?

[Abdussamad]

are you sure its not a gap limit issue?

well it could be but the guy is clearly a newb so i don't think he would have increased the gap limit.

[jonald_fyookball]

are you sure its not a gap limit issue?

well it could be but the guy is clearly a newb so i don't think he would have increased the gap limit.

If he used his wallet a lot in the past and it created many change addreses, and you're trying to
recreate it from seed, you wont see all of them.

[jonald_fyookball]

yeah I have no problem doing that but when I try to transfer the funds out of the old wallet it still asks me for the old password. so my funds are stuck in that wallet even though I have the seed for it

this shouldnt happen if you rename the wallet (instead of wallet_1) use a totally new name and old seed, you wont need the pwd then.  after that, if you dont see all your coins, increase the gap limit.

[Abdussamad]

are you sure its not a gap limit issue?

well it could be but the guy is clearly a newb so i don't think he would have increased the gap limit.

If he used his wallet a lot in the past and it created many change addreses, and you're trying to
recreate it from seed, you wont see all of them.

It's only a problem if you change the gap limit from the default. Otherwise electrum will discover all your change addresses too.

Also electrum is backward compatible with old seeds.

We see threads like these all the time but unfortunately we never learn the outcome because the OPs always stops replying. I suspect it is because they figure out what mistake they made and correct it. But they don't bother telling us. Here again the OP has stopped replying. Hopefully he will chime in so we can understand what happened.

[andreibi]

We see threads like these all the time but unfortunately we never learn the outcome because the OPs always stops replying. I suspect it is because they figure out what mistake they made and correct it. But they don't bother telling us. Here again the OP has stopped replying. Hopefully he will chime in so we can understand what happened.

He figured it out. It's just knowing the correct derivation path.