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Quote from: ThatDevAaron on November 09, 2020, 12:14:42 PM

So I recently found my old electrum wallet, problem is I only have the xpub for it, can I do anything to get it back or have I lost the wallet?

What exactly did you find? The xpub? Or the wallet (file)?

If you only have the xpub, you are not able to recover the wallet since it only allows you to derive the public keys and addresses and not the private keys which are needed to access the BTC.
Don't you have a backup of your mnemonic code (the 12 words)? You need to write them down when creating an electrum wallet. You are asked to enter the words again, so at some point you had to note them somewhere.

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What exactly do you found in your old wallet?
Is it the wallet file? something like "default_wallet"? Or you only got a notepad with xPub key?

If you talking about a wallet file with the password you can able to recover it with BTCrecovery but if you are talking about a wallet with "imported, watching-only" on the top of Electrum you don't have any chance to recover it.

The Watch-only wallet in Electrum looks like this below.

Source of this image: https://support.cobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047737014-Creating-an-Electrum-watch-only-wallet

or like this

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If you only have the xpub, you can't get it back.

All you can do with it is watch the wallet (see the balance and which addresses you own). To actually spend your coins, you need either:

a) the private key of every address you had coins;
b) your backup seed; or
c) a backup of the wallet file.

The xpub is the address of your house, while the backup seed or wallet file are the keys to enter it.

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So I recently found my old electrum wallet, problem is I only have the xpub for it, can I do anything to get it back or have I lost the wallet?

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