Deletion of Electrum wallet from a single computer among several

Spendulus

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Quote from: Josson on December 29, 2017, 04:53:06 PM

Hello,

I have Electrum installed on several computers using the same wallet/seed. I would now like to sell one of the computers. If I delete the wallet file from this one machine, will it affect the equivalent wallet that also runs on the other two machines? Thanks, I just want to be sure I do the correct thing!

it's best when selling a computer to securely reformat the drives, not just one program like electrum. Wipe it clean of all your programs and passwords and activities.

Josson

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Thanks very much for the help and advice, much appreciated!

pooya87

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it is always better to be safe than sorry even if it costs you some money it is better than losing all of your money. I suggest creating a new wallet and sending all your funds to that. you pay a fee of course and that is currently high but you at least are going to be 100% sure that even if someone found your wallets through recovery,... they wouldn't get anything.

TryNinja

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No. Absolutely nothing will be affected.

But you may want to securely delete the file so no one can try to recover the file with softwares like Recuva (just my opinion). Here are some suggestions[1].

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/72130/learn-how-to-securely-delete-files-in-windows/

Josson

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Hello,

I have Electrum installed on several computers using the same wallet/seed. I would now like to sell one of the computers. If I delete the wallet file from this one machine, will it affect the equivalent wallet that also runs on the other two machines? Thanks, I just want to be sure I do the correct thing!

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