Electrum wallet not synchronizing

[evergreendog]

Usually my electrum wallet loads just fine, but now its stuck and is saying synchornizing.... for the last few hours. I'm using version 2.8.3 if anyone can help me

[TryNinja]

Why are you using an outdated version? Electrum had some major vulnerabilities that have been fixed recently. Besides the synchronizing issues that tend to happen in the 2.x.x versions.

Please upgrade your Electrum wallet to the latest version ASAP: https://electrum.org/#download

[evergreendog]

Why are you using an outdated version? Electrum had some major vulnerabilities that have been fixed recently. Besides the synchronizing issues that tend to happen in the 2.x.x versions.

Please upgrade your Electrum wallet to the latest version ASAP: https://electrum.org/#download

How to I go about upgrading it and importing my old wallet?

[TryNinja]

How to I go about upgrading it and importing my old wallet?

Which OS are you using? Just install the latest version.

- If you are on Windows, just download the latest file on the website[1] and run it.

- If you are on Linux, run the commands mentioned in the website:

Code:

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip
sudo pip3 install https://download.electrum.org/3.2.2/Electrum-3.2.2.tar.gz

P.S: You should always have your seed backed up (even before upgrading Electrum). So if you don't, just do it right now.
[1]  https://electrum.org/#download

[evergreendog]

Well I upgraded and now it wont work, says "this application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows"

Available platform plugins are minimal, offscreen, windows

reinstalling the application may fix the problem

[TryNinja]

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Which OS are you using? (please be specific)

[evergreendog]

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Which OS are you using? (please be specific)

windows vista

[TryNinja]

windows vista

Well, that's the issue. Vista isn't supported anymore.

Honestly, why are you still that outdated? Microsoft stopped supporting Vista more than 1 year ago. Which means that you will not receive new security updates or get any support for most softwares. You shouldn't be storing Bitcoins in an OS that no longer receives security updates. Just update to Windows 10.

[evergreendog]

windows vista

Well, that's the issue. Vista isn't supported anymore.

Honestly, why are you still that outdated? Microsoft stopped supporting Vista more than 1 year ago. Which means that you will not receive new security updates or get any support for most softwares. You shouldn't be storing Bitcoins in a OS that no longer receives security updates. Just update to Windows 10.

I know, I only use this computer for small transactions of less than 100 dollars, I have another laptop with windows 10 for more security.

[TryNinja]

I know, I only use this computer for small transactions of less than 100 dollars, I have another laptop with windows 10 for more security.

Then, either use Electrum 3.0 (which AFAIK it's the latest version that supports Vista - still not recommended) or update it to Windows 10.

[evergreendog]

I know, I only use this computer for small transactions of less than 100 dollars, I have another laptop with windows 10 for more security.

Then, either use Electrum 3.0 (which AFAIK it's the latest version that supports Vista - still not recommended) or update it to Windows 10.

Alright thanks.