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Topic: Unable to restore my wallet from seed. What to do? (Read 816 times)

legendary
Activity: 3724
Merit: 1586
I was previously using Electrum 1.9.8
It's been 1-2 months since I last accessed my wallet and I upgraded to the new version of electrum only to find that wallet seeds are longer now and my old seed won't work.

I tried reinstalling the old version of electrum but my seed doesn't seem to be working there either. It's showing no transaction history and no balance.

I have my seed memorized but just to make sure I double checked a paper copy of the seed to make sure that it wasn't an issue of me not remembering the correct seed.


How can I generate my wallet so I can transfer my bitcoins to a newer wallet?

Do you see familiar addresses in the wallet once you do a restore? Do you see *any* addresses at all?

Oh and btw 2.0 is backward compatible with 1.9.8 seeds so you don't need to transfer to a new wallet. If you have a copy of the wallet file from 1.9.8 then that will work too.
legendary
Activity: 1344
Merit: 1024
Mine at Jonny's Pool
You'll probably have better luck posting your thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=98.0.
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
I was previously using Electrum 1.9.8
It's been 1-2 months since I last accessed my wallet and I upgraded to the new version of electrum only to find that wallet seeds are longer now and my old seed won't work.

I tried reinstalling the old version of electrum but my seed doesn't seem to be working there either. It's showing no transaction history and no balance.

I have my seed memorized but just to make sure I double checked a paper copy of the seed to make sure that it wasn't an issue of me not remembering the correct seed.


How can I generate my wallet so I can transfer my bitcoins to a newer wallet?
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