Electrum wallets

[simoncaswell]

Hi, I have been having problems. My old computer crashed and was rebuilt. I bought a small amount of coin and transferred it to my default wallet on electrum 3.0.3, but it disappeared a couple of hours later. I then made a new wallet with a new seed, but I cannot find this wallet to receive my new coin amount. Any ideas?

[TryNinja]

Open the folder %appdata%\Electrum\wallets and see if your wallet file is there. If it is, open Electrum, then click 'File' -> 'Open' and select your wallet file to open it.

You will either need to find your wallet file or seed (to restore it). Without any of them, your coins are gone.

[BitMaxz]

Beware on using an old version of Electrum wallet because these wallets are not safe, they can easily retrieve your seed phrase or private key via RPC command so beware.

Use Electrum 3.0.6 and above this version is safe to use than using below version of the Electrum.

If you still had the wallet.dat or seed phrase you can recover it, but make sure to use the above Electrum 3.0.6 version, follow the TryNinja guide

If you couldn't find your wallet.dat or seed phrase your wallet is gone.

[nc50lc]

Depending on where your last browsed page in Electrum's wallet selection window, it may display no wallet files at all if you've closed the window while on a different location.
To be sure, browse to the default (Installer/Stand-alone version) location: C(your Windows disk):\Users\(Your Username)\AppData\Roaming\Electrum\wallets and look for a wallet file.

If there's a wallet, either copy it to your desired place and browse to that location using Electrum's "Choose..." menu, or
Manually go to the default location directly.

And yes, 3.0.3 isn't safe.