I can't recover my original wallet. I set up my original wallet through the Monero GUI app where I sent my Monero. I copied all of the mnemonic seed (25 words with the 25th word being a repeat, the restore height name, etc.
I am working with someone of Reddit for the last week and have tried just about everything. The only thing I am managing to do is keep creating new wallets.
When I restore from seed it will not allow me to add the 25 words. If I put all 25 in and go through the process, it tells me "electrum-style word list failed." I then go back and take out the 25th repeated word and it will go through. But all it does is create a new wallet on my desktop with a $0 balance.
I have also tried going back on the restore height and also back date to the day before all with no luck. I still have the original transaction information from when it was completed through Binance. I just can't find the Monero anywhere.
I figured while getting help on Reddit, I would try here also. Thanks!
P.s. I do not ever remember the Monero balance showing in the wallet when I created it. I think the GUI closed and I opened it back up but there was zero balance. Binance accepted the Monero address and said it was completed.
Ok, that does not make sense in two ways.
1. Can you post or check by yourself the transaction on, if it is confirmed -->
https://xmrchain.net/2. Can you verify the address where you sent your Moneroj to from your binance account
3. Have you tried by entering the seed word by word by yourself, hence copy&paste can also produce unwanted sings and/or strings which then malform the seed which by it's nature will not be accepted
4. Restoring from a block height a week before your initial transaction will not hurt you that much
5. Please make sure you are using the latest version of Monero from the official download page with version 0.17.1.9 -->
https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/Greetings
Thank you very much for the reply. On the Binance website it does indeed say it is confirmed.
1. Here is the hash: 8f321a621ee035d08f6fdaf8cf0626f74460a9eef5a58dafdfb855a79975f186
2. I have the address that Binance sent it to, but I cannot recreate that address in any wallet that I have. I am not sure what I did when I set up the original GUI. I do have one original "keys" file that I try to restore from backup, but it keeps telling me my password is incorrect. Also, it will not allow me to end the 25 word seed when trying to restore from seed (one word repeated). I have to delete one word, but it is still not the correct address that opens. It creates a new wallet.
3. I hand typed each word for word 8000 times already...(sarcasm), but I am probably close to that.
4. My block height was 2249000. I took it back to 2101234, and then also tried by date 24 hours before
5. I just downloaded the app on January 7th, and then did the new update.
I am having no luck finding the original address it was sent to. All I am doing is creating new wallet folders on my desktop at this point.
1. Here is the hash: 8f321a621ee035d08f6fdaf8cf0626f74460a9eef5a58dafdfb855a79975f186
--> OK, you have 3646 confiramtions that´s good
2. I have the address that Binance sent it to, but I cannot recreate that address in any wallet that I have. I am not sure what I did when I set up the original GUI. I do have one original "keys" file that I try to restore from backup, but it keeps telling me my password is incorrect.
--> Ok, if you have a *.keys file that is better and faster than the 25 word seed file, but without the correct password to the *.keys file that is nearly useless
Also, it will not allow me to end the 25 word seed when trying to restore from seed (one word repeated). I have to delete one word, but it is still not the correct address that opens. It creates a new wallet.
--> Ok, it opens a new wallet, so that is an indication that your wallet seed is not the correct one from the originating wallet. From a seed it always recreates the correct wallet, just tried that with a mobile wallet on my desktop
3. I hand typed each word for word 8000 times already...(sarcasm), but I am probably close to that.
--> Ok4. My block height was 2249000. I took it back to 2101234, and then also tried by date 24 hours before
--> Ok5. I just downloaded the app on January 7th, and then did the new update.
--> OkIn my opinion you are mixing your seed from another wallet, could be even from another currency with the one you want to restore. Best chance you have is to restore your wallet from the *.keys file with the correct password to the *.keys file
I figured the .keys was probably the best route, but it keeps telling me incorrect password. What a mess-up on my part...I copied the seed word for word, the restore height, and password the second I created the file. Who knows, maybe I missed a letter/number/character when copying the password. What a learning lesson. I am going to guess it is just lost at this point if there is no way for Binance reverse the transaction. That was a semi-expensive learning lesson. Could have been much worse.
