Electrum Wallet - Max Button Does Nothing

[Flakie]

Last post I tried got and error and saved as a draft.
Try again to post it and it says: You already submitted this post! You might have accidently double clicked, or tried to refresh.
Cannot PM moderator as not accepting posts from newbies!

OK this worked:.
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Just started this bitcoin thing yesterday.
Chose Electrum as a wallet!
Coins tab shows I have 0.00119531
Go to send tab and hit Max. Stays (or resets to zero).
How to fix?

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[jackg]

Can you link the topic? Did you check it definitely didn't post - on the actual thread?

I don't read errors I just click refresh and then post again and it normally fixes them.

[Flakie]

Thanks it seems to be working now.
Updated the subject and added original content.

[o_e_l_e_o]

You have to enter an address in the "Pay to" box before you can click on "Max".

[Flakie]

Thanks.
Yes, that is what I am doing.
I just restarted Electrum.
Clicked Send tab. Noted all fields were empty and Max button disabled (greyed out).
Entered the address to send to (pasted it).
Max button then enabled.
Clicked Max button.
Both BTC and GBP get filled with zero.

[Flakie]

Installed the Android app on my phone and that worked instantly.

[HCP]

Is your wallet a "2FA" wallet? Does it say [2fa] in the title like this:


Or does it just say [standard]?

If it's [2fa], its probably reserving as much as possible to pre-pay for your TrustedCoin "credits" as 2FA Electrum wallets come with a service charge from TrustedCoin in addition to the normal Bitcoin Transaction fee... it is usually charged on the first send (and when you have 0 credits left), refer: https://api.trustedcoin.com/#/electrum-help

If it says [standard], it's possibly an issue with the default "fee calculation algorithm" in the desktop version... given that fees have increased dramatically again over the last 12 hours, it might have decided that you needed to be paying a HUGE fee and so there was nothing left to send so you could only send 0.

[nc50lc]

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Clicked Max button.
Both BTC and GBP get filled with zero.

Have you "frozen" any address or coin in their particular tabs?
Frozen addresses and coins will be highlighted with blue, coin's highlight will be under 'output point'. Check those tabs if there're blue highlights.

If so, you should right-click on an address/coin and select "Unfreeze address" or "Unfreeze coin" depending on what's frozen.