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legendary

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If you have ever used Electrum before, when you uninstalled it, it will NOT have deleted the wallet file. This is a security measure to prevent accidental removal of your wallet file if the application is accidentally uninstalled.

What this means is that if you install Electrum at a later date, it will automatically find your old wallet and use that. Additionally, older wallets didn't encrypt the wallet file (only the keys inside the wallet file), so they don't prompt for a password when you first attempt to open the file... They only require a password when sending or wanting to see the seed or use private keys for signing messages etc.

Do you remember using Electrum previously? If so, any chance you can remember what your password might have been? Or possibly remember writing down a 12 word seed and have that stored somewhere?

If not, getting access to those coins will be very problematic Undecided

You may have to resort to trying to crack the password with btcrecover (https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover)

hatshepsut93

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Quote from: superslot on January 27, 2018, 10:29:56 AM

i have downloaded and installed this file https://download.electrum.org/3.0.5/electrum-3.0.5.dmg
it seems pretty sure is from the real source right?
but i have no seed and no password at all
and yes the wallet was there already maybe it is some new feature of this new version of the software...?
but the problem remains

The only way to be sure that it's the real file is to verify that it was signed by the developer. Here's a guide how to do this on Mac: https://bitzuma.com/posts/how-to-verify-an-electrum-download-on-mac/

If the file was already there before you have installed Electrum, and you have never used Electrum before, then there's a good chance that some malware has created that wallet file, hoping that you would use it when you install Electrum - it's a well-known attack.

superslot

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Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 27, 2018, 10:14:43 AM

Be careful, this sounds very fishy! As I understand you, you have downloaded and installed Electrum, and when you have launched it, you wasn't asked to create a wallet, you have already had "default wallet" file that was opened? If yes, than you might be a victim of malware that creates Electrum folder and default wallet file that will get opened when you install Electrum later. Another option is that you have downloaded a fake client - always make sure that you are downloading from https://electrum.org and verify the signatures of downloaded files before installing them!

I recommend you to check the signatures of the installation files that you have downloaded, get the original wallet if needed, backup your current Electrum folder, then create a new wallet (it will give you a seed and will ask you to setup a password), and after that try to move coins from your current default wallet to your newly created wallet. Try leaving the password field blank when this default wallet asks you for one when you'll try to move your coins.

i have downloaded and installed this file https://download.electrum.org/3.0.5/electrum-3.0.5.dmg
it seems pretty sure is from the real source right?
but i have no seed and no password at all
and yes the wallet was there already maybe it is some new feature of this new version of the software...?
but the problem remains

xdrpx

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No, there's no default password. The password is to be set either when creating a new wallet or when restoring a seed to create a wallet. If you can't remember your password, but you remember your seed or have noted it down elsewhere, then you can try restoring from seed.

How to do this:

1) Click on File > New
2) It'll take you to the wallet creation wizard. Select Standard Wallet > Segwit (assuming you mentioned segwit, if it's standard, select standard)
3) Select 'I already have a seed'
4) Type down your seed there
5) This time it'll ask you to input a password, type down a new password. [Ensure that you input a tough password and not this down somewhere in a safe place]

hatshepsut93

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Be careful, this sounds very fishy! As I understand you, you have downloaded and installed Electrum, and when you have launched it, you wasn't asked to create a wallet, you have already had "default wallet" file that was opened? If yes, than you might be a victim of malware that creates Electrum folder and default wallet file that will get opened when you install Electrum later. Another option is that you have downloaded a fake client - always make sure that you are downloading from https://electrum.org and verify the signatures of downloaded files before installing them!

I recommend you to check the signatures of the installation files that you have downloaded, get the original wallet if needed, backup your current Electrum folder, then create a new wallet (it will give you a seed and will ask you to setup a password), and after that try to move coins from your current default wallet to your newly created wallet. Try leaving the password field blank when this default wallet asks you for one when you'll try to move your coins.

superslot

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hello ,
i've just downloaded and installed a mac osx version, i belive is the last one ,from electrum official web site of they're WALLET
i've never been asked to choose any kind of password. Huh

now after i 've finally received a small amount of btc 6 confirmations for 30$ it took like 45 minutes !! btw
i was about to send those coins to another wallet and it asks me for a password that i've never set .
is there a default one i can use , that somebody could tell me please or a way to set it ?
i repeat during installation i never received any passphrase or the usual mnemonic or stuff like this
thanks guys

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