HELP!
I dl'd 1.5.15 today and opened a new account.
I opened the wallet and there were 2 addresses available(what?). NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36 & NXT-WE6V-Z3LC-V8VM-FRTG5
Once the chain was synced I wanted to move some NXT off the exchange(been there for ever) so I logged into wallet get my public key. I got the public key for NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36 and transferred 5k NXT to wallet.
NXT arrived and all was well except when I try to buy something from market or add a name under "account Info" I am told the passPhrase is incorrect.
I log out of wallet and back in using the issued passPhrase and it logs me into the NXT-WE6V-Z3LC-V8VM-FRTG5 wallet that has a zero balance. All attempts to log into the NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36 wallet fail with "incorrect passPhrase"
Need some help as I'm panicking a bit.
thanks,
john
I don't understand what you mean when you say there were 2 addresses available. If you created a new account, after saving and re-introducing your automatically generated passphrase you will access the dashboard for the account you just created. Where did you see two addresses?
In any case, if you were able to get in the client the public key for your new account (which is not required, just an optional safety belt for the first transaction) that means you logged in using the account passphrase. So you should be able to access the same account again (NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36). The client will only give you the public key for a new account if you log in using your passphrase, so it does look like you have the passphrase for the account where you sent the NXT.
Maybe you're overlooking the button in the left of the client login field? In 1.5.x you have two ways to access the client, by entering a NXT Account (which will open it on the dashboard, but of course you won't be able to do anything with it unless you also got the passphrase - otherwise it is like a built-in explorer) or if you click on that button, you'll see it switches to a key icon and shows Your Passphrase field. Perhaps you're entering NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36 passphrase in the Account field, which happens to translate to NXT-WE6V-Z3LC-V8VM-FRTG5 as it is interpreted by the RS format parser?
If that's the case, just make sure to introduce the passphrase with the "Key" login mode, and you'll go back to NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36 where you sent your NXT.
I may have discovered where I went wrong
I save my passphrases as screenshots when I first create the account. Not the best technique but as previously stated I have left my NXT on the exchanges because the wallet was different than you standard QT. (at this point it seems my NXT were safer on the exchanges as I apparently screwed up bigtime when creating wallet. OR see below for accounts created with passphrase errors)
I think what happened
is that i created 2 addresses initially and saved the second screen shot over the first
. Of course this still does not explain how I was able to retrieve the public key for (NXT-ENWW-SPH8-RELM-FUB36) unless the below happened.
I did notice something that could use a revision. I found that when on the login screen, under the key, if you enter anything even a valid NXT address or mistype your password the UI automatically creates a new account instead of notifying you that your password was incorrect. This causes 2 issues 1) mistakes like what happened to me yesterday 2) many wasted addresses created by mistake.
IMHO account and pass should be required as part of the login to prevent the above and strengthen security by preventing brute force type passphrase guessing which could in turn create millions of wasted addresses.
Anyway, lesson learned and 5056 NXT essentially lost and burned which represented 1/3 of my total NXT.
I typically do not ask but if anyone would like to help me replenish 5k lost NXT then NXT-WE6V-Z3LC-V8VM-FRTG5 seems to be the address I have the passphrase for. Should I ever unlock the wallet with the 5056 I would gladly send those back to those who gave.
Thanks,
john
We mine algos SHA256, Scrypt, X11 and Lyra2REv2
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