Ok will use the sweep option instead next time. I imported as those are the steps shown on chipmixer when you reach the withdrawal step.
At the moment I have my main default electrum Wallet and an imported wallet from that... should I still create a new wallet and what is the reason for that?
Sorry if this is all basic stuff.
Thanks
Your main (
standard) electrum wallet is fine as long as it hasn't been compromised.
Creating another standard wallet is fine too, but don't sweep them in your imported wallet.
The reason for not-using that imported wallet is: the private keys of the addresses that you've imported came from another source.
Even from a reputable source (
Chipmixer), the only user who must have the control over (
who have seen) the private key(s) must exclusively be you.
By doing "
import private keys", you're just including the address & prv key pair to your wallet, the source still have access to the prv key.
By "
Sweeping" it, Electrum will make a transaction using all the tx inputs from the address pairs of that prv key, it will discard that key later, the balance will be transferred to your own (
addresses) wallet,
minus the transaction fee.