electrum "replaceable" help

[Goliathfapps]

just started using electrum, and buying/trading with bitcoins, when i sent all my bitcoins i chose the lowest fee because it was such a small amount, ive read that you need to increase the fee but all attempts to do so havent changed a thinng, would appreciate any help

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[HCP]

Electrum can only increase the fee if there is "spare" money in the "change" output for the transaction. For instance, if your transaction had the following:

Input: $100
Output1 (amount sent): $50
Output2 (change): $45
Fee: $5

Then, you could increase the fee up to ~$44... as you have $45 change spare... However, if your transaction was something like:

Input: $56
Output1 (amount sent): $50
Output2 (change): $1
Fee: $5

You probably wouldn't be able to bump the fee at all... as you can't use ALL the change...

Have a look at the transaction outputs, specifically the one highlighted in YELLOW (this is the change output)... if that is very small (or doesn't exist), then you won't be able to increase the fee

[Abdussamad]

Have a look at the transaction outputs, specifically the one highlighted in YELLOW (this is the change output)... if that is very small (or doesn't exist), then you won't be able to increase the fee

Small correction here. If your transaction has no change outputs you can still bump the fee. The money will come from the remaining outputs and yes that means one or more recipients will get less than you intended. Electrum does it like this because  if, in a hypothetical scenario, you're sending your entire wallet balance to an exchange you can still bump the fee.

If your transaction does have change outputs electrum will limit itself to those when bumping the fee.

Credit goes to SomberNight Electrum dev for explaining this to me.