After years..watching only wallet - page 2.

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Quote from: carajo66 on March 31, 2021, 03:31:27 AM

when I do the restore from seed it shows seed type: standard
and then a totally empty wallet appears with no history of transactions.. nothing like the one thats watch only.. i think it might be something different..

Can you open the watch only wallet and the wallet you recovered from your seed phrase and check if the addresses are same?
If they are different, then you are recovering the wrong wallet. Either you have the wrong seed phrase and need to find the right one, or you used additional words when you first set up the wallet which you also need to remember and enter. On the screen where you type in your seed phrase, you would click "Options" then check the box marked "Extend this seed with custom words" and enter the custom words on the next screen.

Quote from: carajo66 on March 31, 2021, 03:31:27 AM

any local file i could search for that might help or something?

Look in the default data directory as suggested by nc50lc above. Otherwise you could try searching for other files named "nueva" (same as the watch only wallet).

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i have several empty wallets on the same folder.. the one thats on "watch only" is there..

https://imgur.com/jF1QvEb

when I do the restore from seed it shows seed type: standard
and then a totally empty wallet appears with no history of transactions.. nothing like the one thats watch only.. i think it might be something different..

any local file i could search for that might help or something? I honestly dont remember why this happened.. it was like this in 2016 and i simply erased it from my mind? no clue..

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First follow the advice above about looking for other wallet files.

Secondly, what version of Electrum are you using? If you haven't updated it since 2016, then regardless of what wallet you open it will not sync, as older versions are prevented from syncing due to a vulnerability. This means if you are restoring from a seed phrase it will always show a balance of zero, even if the seed phrase is correct. Download and verify version 4.0.9 from here: https://electrum.org/#download

Thirdly, what happens when you restore the seed phrase(s) you have written down?
After you enter the seed phrase in Electrum, what words show up under the text box (something along the lines of "Seed Type: legacy" or "BIP39 (checksum: ok))?
When you recover the wallet, do you see any of the same addresses just with no balance, or are the addresses all totally different?
Were the seed phrases originally created using Electrum or were they imported from somewhere else?

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Quote from: carajo66 on March 31, 2021, 02:47:09 AM

-snip- is there anything i can do to recover it? im lost.. back then it was no money but now is 5000 !!!

Electrum when launched will load the wallet file that it last opened; so in your case, you might have created/opened that watching-only wallet then left Electrum.
Try to find other wallet files in the data directory wallets folder using the "File->Open" Menu in Electrum, it will open to the location of your current wallet file.
If it's not in the default directory, browse to the default data directory.

As said above, it wont suddenly become watching-only unless it's watch-only to begin with. Corruption wont result with that either.

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The wallet doesn't become a watch-only if there's no human intervention. Is there any other wallets on the computer that you can open using Electrum from the same directory?

Unless you're able to find either the correct wallet file or the correct seeds, you cannot convert your watch-only into a spendable wallet.

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If you think it is the seed phrase, you will need to remember if you use passphrase along when you created the wallet. If used, you will need to input it along while restoring the wallet from newly downloaded wallet.

Also know that watch-only wallet only contain the public key, no private key. The wallet can not be used for signing transaction, which means you can only see the balance but can not spend from the wallet.

To be able to spend, you need the private key to the public key of the watch-only wallet. And to get that, you need to get the original seed phrase, or along with it passphrase if used. Or the private key to the public of the watch-only wallet.

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I haven used electrum for years.. opened it and remembered i had some left over btc from 2016.. but now the wallet appears as watching only.. i created it some years ago on my computer.. i had some seeds written down and tried to recover from that but it seems it not the same because it shows as 0 btc.. i didnt do anything the wallet just appeared as watching only.. is still on the same computer i used to create it years ago.. it had no local password nothing.. is there anything i can do to recover it? im lost.. back then it was no money but now is 5000 !!!

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