connecting to ecdsa server. must be the reason why i thought i forgot my password. i really believe i have the right password but it always says incorrect so maybe it just need to be updated.
your password being incorrect has nothing to do with upgrading Electrum itself. you can click on the seed icon at the bottom right side of the wallet window and it should ask you for your password. enter it and see if it shows you the seed or an error. if it does show the seed then write it down on a paper and you are good to go.
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by the way it does not matter how long you leave this open, the moment you connect to a legitimate Electrum server your wallet's network instance crashes and it gets stuck. this is intentional to force everyone to upgrade to latest version in order to avoid losing money due to another vulnerability that existed in older versions.