PLEASE HELP: Watch only wallet problem

[doncello]

I am in big trouble hope there is someone to help me here. I recently started to invest in cryptocurrencies but this week was hell for me. I made some mistakes that costed me big part of my portfolio.

First Ive sent some coins to Poloniex instead of my own wallet and they got lost since their support never replies.

Secondly which is much bigger trouble for me is; I was recently buying some LTC from Bittrex and wanted to send them to my Electrum. But somehow Electrum opened the inital wallet I have created during learning phase which is watch only wallet. I didnt notice it during transfer. I just noticed it and now I cant take my coins out. The wallet doesnt have password but I dont have the seeds. I saw in transactions that I used to sweep some coins from there to my real LTC account but since then I deleted all the info regarding watch only wallet when I was rearranging my password files.

I have at least the wallet addresss and wallet file. Can someone please help me how to get a private key from this address and save my coins. I really lost so much coins this week. I am already thinking leaving this crypto world.

Update 19.08:
Ok I just remember how I used to take coins out of that address. Litecoin core was the first crypto software I have downloaded and since downloading the block took so long I downloaded Electrum and got private key out of Core console and sweeped into the Electrum. But after sweeping I uninstalled the Core. Do you think is there anyway to see transaction history or sth like that on Electrum. Because I used private keys to sweep into Electrum before. But I havent saved that private key. Is there any chance Electrum saved this activity or log? Thanks.

[john2231]

Are you sure you send an LTC to your electrum wallet i think you will never seen any transaction  if you send LTC to your electrum wallet because Electrum wallet is for bitcoin..  and i think you are using a fake electrum wallet which is it can receive LTC if ever..
Or you are talking about BTC?

[Swagtoshi]

If you have the address in your electrum wallet, you go to "Wallet" => "Private Keys" => "Export," and you will get a file with all the private keys of all your addresses. Or you can go to console and type

Code:

getprivatekeys("btcaddress")

Are you sure you send an LTC to your electrum wallet i think you will never seen any transaction  if you send LTC to your electrum wallet because Electrum wallet is for bitcoin..  and i think you are using a fake electrum wallet which is it can receive LTC if ever..
Or you are talking about BTC?

There is a electrum for litcoin.

[doncello]

Are you sure you send an LTC to your electrum wallet i think you will never seen any transaction  if you send LTC to your electrum wallet because Electrum wallet is for bitcoin..  and i think you are using a fake electrum wallet which is it can receive LTC if ever..
Or you are talking about BTC?

Yes there is LTC Electrum
https://electrum-ltc.org/

In transaction history I see that I sweeped in all of the account to my main Electrum address. But I dont remember how.

[Swagtoshi]

My bad, didn't read your post carefully.
If you have a watch only address, that means you don't have the private key, and therefore you don't have access to that address. When creating a watch only address you only have the public key. If you sent the coins to the watch only address, you might be out of luck.

[doncello]

My bad, didn't read your post carefully.
If you have a watch only address, that means you don't have the private key, and therefore you don't have access to that address. When creating a watch only address you only have the public key. If you sent the coins to the watch only address, you might be out of luck.

But I saw that I used to sweeped coins from that address to my real address before. Just I dont remember how I did it before :S

[Swagtoshi]

To create a watch only address, you use the public key. But if you want to use an address, you create it from a private key. Did you sent the ltc to an address where you created with "Master Public Keys"? If so, then you don't have access to the address.

The other times you sweeped coins, you must have sent it to a pregenerated address.

[doncello]

To create a watch only address, you use the public key. But if you want to use an address, you create it from a private key. Did you sent the ltc to an address where you created with "Master Public Keys"? If so, then you don't have access to the address.

The other times you sweeped coins, you must have sent it to a pregenerated address.

Honeslty I couldnt understand well what you are saying. This address is watch only but I see that 20 days ago I used to sweeped in or transfered coins out of this address to my main address. Unfortunately I dont remember how did I do that or how did I create this watch only address. I just have some random numbers saved under the title of _etm_template_uuid. Do you think this might have enabled the transfer before? Any help would be great pls.

[Abdussamad]

a watch-only wallet is just that. you can't spend from it because it doesn't have the seed or any private keys. that's why when you open a watch-only wallet you get a warning telling you to make sure that you have the seed or private keys recording somewhere.

without the seed or private keys there is nothing that can be done.

[doncello]

a watch-only wallet is just that. you can't spend from it because it doesn't have the seed or any private keys. that's why when you open a watch-only wallet you get a warning telling you to make sure that you have the seed or private keys recording somewhere.

without the seed or private keys there is nothing that can be done.

But in transaction history I see that I used to deposit and withdraw from that watch-only address. How that was happened do you have any idea?

[Swagtoshi]

a watch-only wallet is just that. you can't spend from it because it doesn't have the seed or any private keys. that's why when you open a watch-only wallet you get a warning telling you to make sure that you have the seed or private keys recording somewhere.

without the seed or private keys there is nothing that can be done.

But in transaction history I see that I used to deposit and withdraw from that watch-only address. How that was happened do you have any idea?

It is because you deleted the info regarding the address; you no longer have the seed or the private key, so you can't use the address.

Did you have the private written on a file before? You might try to recover the file that you deleted?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/how-can-i-recover-deleted-files-with-shift-del/13b1eaad-d41a-4e77-91c5-f0bc9590de7d?auth=1

[doncello]

a watch-only wallet is just that. you can't spend from it because it doesn't have the seed or any private keys. that's why when you open a watch-only wallet you get a warning telling you to make sure that you have the seed or private keys recording somewhere.

without the seed or private keys there is nothing that can be done.

But in transaction history I see that I used to deposit and withdraw from that watch-only address. How that was happened do you have any idea?

It is because you deleted the info regarding the address; you no longer have the seed or the private key, so you can't use the address.

Did you have the private written on a file before? You might try to recover the file that you deleted?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/how-can-i-recover-deleted-files-with-shift-del/13b1eaad-d41a-4e77-91c5-f0bc9590de7d?auth=1

I really dont remember. It was my first wallet application ever last month. Totally forgot how did I create that and what happened to keys and how did I sweeped them out

[doncello]

a watch-only wallet is just that. you can't spend from it because it doesn't have the seed or any private keys. that's why when you open a watch-only wallet you get a warning telling you to make sure that you have the seed or private keys recording somewhere.

without the seed or private keys there is nothing that can be done.

But in transaction history I see that I used to deposit and withdraw from that watch-only address. How that was happened do you have any idea?

It is because you deleted the info regarding the address; you no longer have the seed or the private key, so you can't use the address.

Did you have the private written on a file before? You might try to recover the file that you deleted?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/how-can-i-recover-deleted-files-with-shift-del/13b1eaad-d41a-4e77-91c5-f0bc9590de7d?auth=1

Ok I just remember how I used to take coins out of that address. Litecoin core was the first crypto software I have downloaded and since downloading the block took so long I downloaded Electrum and got private key out of Core console and sweeped into the Electrum. But after sweeping I uninstalled the Core. Do you think is there anyway to see transaction history or sth like that on Electrum. Because I used private keys to sweep into electrum before which I never saved. Thanks.

[HCP]

If you haven't wiped/reinstalled your Operating System... and all you did was uninstall Litecoin Core, there is a VERY good chance that your litecoin core wallet.dat is still on your harddrive in the Litecoin Core datadir.

By default, on windows, this should be something like C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Litecoin (note: if you can't see AppData, you need to show hidden files)

If you have the wallet.dat file, you can simply back it up somewhere safe just in case, then reinstall Litecoin Core (you don't need to sync the blockchain)... once Litecoin Core is reinstalled and has opened up your wallet you can use dumpprivkey command to get your private keys again