My friend has a transaction that is stuck

[minarchist]

She sent her entire balance from her blockchain.info wallet to an offline address.  She sent this balance without including a fee, and the transaction has been unconfirmed for a few hours.  I told her that I recalled reading here that simply importing the private key of the sending to a new wallet should work, but this does not work when I try importing to a new blockchain.info wallet.  I assume that this is because of the way that blockchain.info is set up, and that if I help her find some other online wallet service that allows for importation of private keys, that I can tell her to simply import the private key of the sending address there and then resend (this time with a fee, of course).  I distinctly remember that bitcoin is never lost in limbo, and if miners never take your transaction, that you always have the option of importing the sending address private key (albeit somewhere other than blockchain.info, apprently).  Any help is veyr much appreciated.   

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[empoweoqwj]

She sent her entire balance from her blockchain.info wallet to an offline address.  She sent this balance without including a fee, and the transaction has been unconfirmed for a few hours.  I told her that I recalled reading here that simply importing the private key of the sending to a new wallet should work, but this does not work when I try importing to a new blockchain.info wallet.  I assume that this is because of the way that blockchain.info is set up, and that if I help her find some other online wallet service that allows for importation of private keys, that I can tell her to simply import the private key of the sending address there and then resend (this time with a fee, of course).  I distinctly remember that bitcoin is never lost in limbo, and if miners never take your transaction, that you always have the option of importing the sending address private key (albeit somewhere other than blockchain.info, apprently).  Any help is veyr much appreciated.   

Sent her entire balance ..... without including a fee? Who suggested she do that? Of course its been unconfirmed for a few hours.

Next time include a fee, and support the people that do the work to validate transactions.

[minarchist]

She's a newbie and apparently her settings were such that she was not prompted to decrease the balance by 0.0005.  I have found some threads on this subject where posters state that the transaction will eventually time out if sent through the blockchain.info wallet with the amount being redisplayed at the sending address.  Is this true?

[jackjack]

She's a newbie and apparently her settings were such that she was not prompted to decrease the balance by 0.0005 0.0001

I have found some threads on this subject where posters state that the transaction will eventually time out if sent through the blockchain.info wallet with the amount being redisplayed at the sending address.  Is this true?

Likely
Or it will get included

[cr1776]

Make sure she doesn't panic and give it some time. The odds are extremely good it will be included in a reasonable amount of time.

At worst you can do as suggested eventually and import into a different wallet.

She sent her entire balance from her blockchain.info wallet to an offline address.  She sent this balance without including a fee, and the transaction has been unconfirmed for a few hours.  I told her that I recalled reading here that simply importing the private key of the sending to a new wallet should work, but this does not work when I try importing to a new blockchain.info wallet.  I assume that this is because of the way that blockchain.info is set up, and that if I help her find some other online wallet service that allows for importation of private keys, that I can tell her to simply import the private key of the sending address there and then resend (this time with a fee, of course).  I distinctly remember that bitcoin is never lost in limbo, and if miners never take your transaction, that you always have the option of importing the sending address private key (albeit somewhere other than blockchain.info, apprently).  Any help is veyr much appreciated.   

[jackjack]

Make sure she doesn't panic and give it some time.

This
Whatever happens the funds are not lost

[minarchist]

Will blockchain.info eventually let her import the balance from the sending address into another blockchain.info wallet (which so far yields a zero balance), or will she have to find another online wallet that allows importing of private keys?

[BombaUcigasa]

Get the txnid and check blochain.info. It will give you a nice estimation and possible reason if any, for invalidity.

[minarchist]

The transaction has now gone through.  Thank you for your help everyone.