Seems like I am destined to make every mistake possible.
I have forgotten my wallet password.
Wasn't much in there to begin with.
So, I've read pretty much impossible to recover it.
Fine I can live with that and my mistake.
the REAL QUESTION IS:
How do I uninstall , reinstall electrum so that I can have a chance of entering a NEW password and then making sure I don't forget it ?
Else if I delete it, and restart it, it would just ask for the old password which I forgot...
Thanks again.
Did you forget the password or the "seed". The password protects you from someone spending funds and is asked for when you want to send money. The seed is generated when you created the wallet and were told to write it down (12 words). With the seed you can restore the wallet even when you have forgotten the password. But if you didn't write down the seed then your wallet cannot be recovered.
Either way you don't need to uninstall and reinstall. You either need to "restore" if you know your seed, or "create" a new wallet if you don't. Both can be done as commands on the cmd line, and it will work from the desktop too.
You can do a restore or create by starting electrum with a new wallet option,
electrum -w my_new_wallet(use whatever new name you like)
And then selecting Restore in the dialog. It will ask for your seed, and after that a new password. If you don't know the seed then you'll have no option but to select Create instead of Restore, which will generate a completely new wallet.
On Unity desktop I think you can do this command by typing Alt-F2 and then typing command as above. After restored you probably want to backup your old electrum.dat file and rename the my_new_wallet to elctrum.dat so that it is the default wallet.
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