Thanks for your reply. I have tried this previously and every other thing that I have read about trying to import from the multibit hd wallet. Nothing seems to work. I have the seed words, I know that the btc is there and unspent but will only show as a watch only in electrum -snip-
If it's restored as a watch-only wallet, then you've imported the address or master public key (
xpub) to Electrum,
anyone can do that by getting a random address with balance from a blockexplorer and import it to Electrum
What you need to do is to restore the seed phrase (
12-24 words) using the option: "
Standard wallet->I already have a seed" and the options from my previous reply.
You can create more than one wallets in Electrum using "
File->New/Restore" menu.
If you already done exactly that, then you might have got the wrong seed phrase since Electrum will restore both receiving and change addresses or it's out of reach of the "
gap limit".
After importing the seed to Electrum, try to increase the Gap limit to 1000 or more by typing in the console tab (
View->Show Console):
wallet.change_gap_limit(1000)
Then close the wallet and restart Electrum.
Also, check the other addresses in the address tab (
View->Show Addresses) if you can see a familiar address.