NEED HELP!! My Eletrum Wallet Corrupt?

[Nezumikozou7]

I Need Help Here!

My Electrum Wallet seems like having error in Xpub and Seed (double??)

I cant send out my bitcoin. and when i tried to open in another crypto wallet such as Trust wallet and XDefi with the Private Key of the Address, It showed different address.

I also Tried to import the SEED & Private Key to another defi wallet and it showed different list of address than my electrum wallet.

Is it possible that My electrum wallet automatically generate new seed and private key? because I suspect that's the problem.

When I open my electrum it showed notification : WALLET FILE CORRUPTION DETECTED. PLEASE RESTORE YOUR WALLET FROM SEED AND COMPARE THE ADDRESSES IN BOTH FILES.

Really need help here guys. Thanks.

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[Hatchy]

I'm not familiar with that error, but I suggest avoiding importing your seed or keys into wallets like Trust Wallet and XDefi as they could put your funds at risk.

Here's what you should do instead. completely clear your Electrum wallet or download the latest version from their official website. Then, import your seed into the updated wallet and try sending out coins again. It should work this time.

Regarding the different addresses you found, they are your child addresses generated by Electrum. Many cryptocurrency wallets, including Electrum, use hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallet structures. In an HD wallet, a master key (generated from the seed phrase) can derive an infinite number of child keys, each corresponding to a unique address. Each of these new addresses has its own private key, and your wallet manages them all for you. When you initiate a transaction from any input, your wallet uses the corresponding key to sign the transaction.

[Nezumikozou7]

Already did Re-open the Wallet with the SEED but it showed different lists of addresses than my backup wallet.

Problem with My electrum now is :
1. The SEED and Private Key in My electrum is different with the addresses showed.
2. I never write down the seed before so i can't tell whether my SEED change or not but I'm sure it is changed

really depressing issue  

[Zaguru12]

Already did Re-open the Wallet with the SEED but it showed different lists of addresses than my backup wallet.

Problem with My electrum now is :
1. The SEED and Private Key in My electrum is different with the addresses showed.
2. I never write down the seed before so i can't tell whether my SEED change or not but I'm sure it is changed

Electrum doesn’t change seed phrase (no wallet does that). If you can view your seed phrase then there is one answer to that; it is a Bip39 seed phrase from another wallet and not electrum custom generated seed. With this Bip39 seed it seems your are importing it into the electrum wallet in a different derivation path other than the right one used to generate the wallet and that’s why you’re getting another address. If it was the custom electrum seed phrase it will have imported the right address because the derivation path doesn’t changes.

Also even if it is the right seed phrase and the correct derivation path and you’re still getting wrong Addresses then you might have add a passphrase when setting up the wallet and probably you are not adding that passphrase now while importing the wallet and a different address will definitely be generated.

So what you should is to figure which of these is actually the problem or even check the address you have your coins on and recheck it again from this current addresses. So as to be sure that it is wrong address because there might be situations where it is the correct address but the bitcoins on it has been moved.

[pooya87]

I also Tried to import the SEED & Private Key to another defi wallet and it showed different list of address than my electrum wallet.

That may be because you are entering your "bitcoin seed" (from Electrum which is a bitcoin wallet) into an altcoin wallet (defi wallet?!).

1. The SEED and Private Key in My electrum is different with the addresses showed.
2. I never write down the seed before so i can't tell whether my SEED change or not but I'm sure it is changed

The seed and the wallet you've created doesn't just change automatically.
Check whether you have created more than one wallet, it may be that you have another wallet with another seed and Electrum is just opening the last thing you've opened which is the second wallet/seed.
There should be an open (wallet) button under File in the top menu.

[nc50lc]

When I open my electrum it showed notification : WALLET FILE CORRUPTION DETECTED. PLEASE RESTORE YOUR WALLET FROM SEED AND COMPARE THE ADDRESSES IN BOTH FILES.

That happens when the "xprv" and "xpub" keys in your wallet file didn't matched but both are valid.

As a result the wallet will show addresses derived from that xpub with private keys derived from that xprv.
Since those aren't a pair, the private key wont be able to restore the address where you got it from. (like what's happening in your case)
The correct addresses derived from your xprv are the ones restored by your seed phrase.

AFAIK, that was a conditional bug in a quite old version when upgrading from its previous version, but not in the latest versions we're using now.
It can also be edited in the wallet file to show addresses with high bitcoin balance despite not having the correct extended private key and seed, you know "the usual".

[khaled0111]

2. I never write down the seed before so i can't tell whether my SEED change or not but I'm sure it is changed

In this case, I suppose you got the seed for your wallet directly from Electrum after providing the encrypting password. If this is the case and your wallet shows the correct balance and right addresses then the seed you got is the right one.
The reason why other wallets generate different addresses is likely because they use different derivation paths than the one Electrum uses. Afaik, most wallets do not support electrum's seeds.