Unused/Address Pool Help Request

[matrix01]

I’m experiencing a lot of confusion with my offline Armory app running on my offline PC. My “Export Key List” feature does not show a list of used addresses/keys. However, if I tick the "Include Unused Address Keypool" feature I  see Address, PrivBase58, PrivHexBE, PublicX, and PublicY data.

Here is what I hope somebody in this forum can clarify. Does an empty “Export Key List” versus a populated “Unused Address Keypool” list mean my addresses/private keys I have as “Unused”  100% control nothing at all in the way of funds? Or do they still 100% control my funds even though they have an “Unused” status? 

I asked AI these questions and it is telling me that an empty "Export Key List" with an "Unused/Address Pool" status  strongly points to an Armory wallet with a zero balance. But this makes no sense because I clearly remember seeing the correct balance on my online Armory app after it fully synced to the BTC blockchain network the last time I ran a sync operation. In short, is the Artificial Intelligence information I got 100% correct or 100% incorrect about addresses/private keys  with an "Unused/Address Pool" status?

Any advice welcome and thank you for your time.

[hosemary]

Did you generate your address(es) on your watch-only wallet or any other instances of your wallet?
If so, the offline version of your Armory wallet doesn't know you have used those addresses and it only displays them when you check "Include unused (Address Pool)".

[nc50lc]

Here is what I hope somebody in this forum can clarify. Does an empty “Export Key List” versus a populated “Unused Address Keypool” list mean my addresses/private keys I have as “Unused”  100% control nothing at all in the way of funds? Or do they still 100% control my funds even though they have an “Unused” status?

This depends on the wallet file's contents.

If it's the exact wallet file that's used before (not restored from a backup), then the "Unused Address Keypool" would represent the addresses that you haven't used yet,
including both that can spend you current UTXOs (funds) and those that already used to spend.
But you can't be certain on its result unless the wallet is fully synced.

If it's a newly restored wallet from paper backup that's not synced, then you can't be certain if those in the list are unused or not.
So in this case, either sync armory or export them all including the ones under unused addresses.

[goatpig]

"Used addresses" are those an online instance of Armory has detected as having history on the chain + all addresses that have been requested explicitly, for either change or to receive funds.

An offline wallet  does not have any of the chain data, so it only knows of the addresses requested explicitly, so long as they were requested from the offline wallet directly. To be safe, you should export unused addresses. If you are doing this manually or somehow can't handle thousands of addresses at one time, try at least the first 10. If funds show up on them, import the next 10 and so on.

Or do they still 100% control my funds even though they have an “Unused” status?

The offline wallet carries the private keys for those addresses. So long as there are coins on these addresses, you need these exact private keys to spend the funds. Your issue is that the offline wallet cannot see the blockchain, there it cannot tell you if those addresses have funds. It doesn't mean there are no funds there. Copy paste the addresses in any chain explorer if it comes down to that.

Whichever way this goes, do not dump this wallet unless you sweep the funds on it or get an online instance of Armory to check it has funds or not.

[matrix01]

Goatpig, Nc50lc and Hosemary thank you very much for your posts. As soon as I am finished taking care of some family matters, I plan to fire up both my Online & Offline Armory PCs and take a deeper look at my general setup and also what I have setup for a watch only wallet on my Armory online PC. Due to security concerns I do not plan to connect my online Armory PC to the internet, even though a bunch of years ago, I clearly remember my Online Armory PC did successfully display to me a correct BTC balance in the Online Armory User Interface after the sync operation completed.  Again, thank you for your posts and I will followup with an updated post soon.