Restoring from seed, would imported private key transactions get "lost"?

empoweoqwj

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Quote from: flatfly on May 16, 2013, 03:11:48 AM

I'll try to answer this in a simple way.

If you have imported external private keys, you must keep backups for those private keys in addition to your seed. Then when you restore a wallet from seed, just re-import the external keys as well and all your funds will be there.

Alternatively, you can keep backups of the electrum.dat file as you said. Whatever suits you best.

Great. Thanks for quick response and clearing that up. All clear now

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I'll try to answer this in a simple way.

If you have imported external private keys, you must keep backups for those private keys in addition to your seed. Then when you restore a wallet from seed, just re-import the external keys as well and all your funds will be there.

Alternatively, you can keep backups of the electrum.dat file as you said. Whatever suits you best.

empoweoqwj

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Let's say I lose my electrum.dat permanently, and restore my wallet from the deterministic seed using the mnemonics I have carefully remembered. Hunky dory. Everything comes back.

Except ... I have imported a couple of external private keys, and the manual says these don't get recreated. Fair enough.

But what I am trying to understand is whether the money from these transactions is lost as well?

ie. if I had 32 BTC before the restore, will I have 32 BTC balance after restoring, even if 1/2 the transactions were done with the imported keys?

Obviously a very important thing to understand Wink

If they are lost, it means backups of electrum.dat are *really* crucial if you use imported keys (I am presuming electrum.dat *will* restore imported keys as well?)

I would of course love to read this stuff in the FAQ but ..... its just not there. I really like Electrum but its still a bit scary using it. It just needs a bigger and better FAQ.

Just my 2 cents.

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