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March 06, 2014, 01:00:43 AM
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Help!  I set up my original Electrum 1.7.2 wallet without creating a public key or a seed (I didn't understand anything at the time).  All I ever had was a singular password.  Everything worked fine until my hard drive took a dive.  All my files were retrieved and moved to a new hard drive, however...I can no longer open my wallet.  It's now asking for a seed.  Can someone please help me retrieve my wallet information please?
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March 06, 2014, 03:05:26 AM
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For 1.7.2 the wallet file is named wallet.dat and is in the root electrum folder (not wallets sub-folder):

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum#Wallet_File

Can you locate the wallet file?
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March 09, 2014, 10:22:49 PM
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The computer store saved that file to a cd for me.
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Quote from: Coinhound on March 09, 2014, 10:22:49 PM
The computer store saved that file to a cd for me.

Place the file in the electrum directory (root folder not wallets subfolder) and run electrum.
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March 16, 2014, 12:11:58 AM
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Thank You!  It's been restored.
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