Quote from: JohnDoeGotDough on May 21, 2016, 06:26:39 PM

I've went to bitaddress.org and have enetered my private key from my paper wallet. I took the compressed Private Key and tried to sweep it into my offline Electrum wallet. It says " No inputs found" ...and nothing happens... Anyone know why?

Thanks for your time, regards,

JD

You have encrypted key, right? when you go to bitaddress and UN-encrypt it with your pass-phrase, you'll be shown two addresses, one compressed and one uncompressed, now look at your paper wallet, the address shown there is your correct address and you have to enter the key shown on the bitaddress which corresponds to it, should be right below it.

Since you have tried the compressed one, your funds should be in the uncompressed address, its key should start with '5', where as compressed ones start with 'L' or 'K'.

If your paper wallet is not encrypted, then you don't need to go to bitaddress to view its details, just import/sweep it directly into electrum and it should work, make sure if you're typing it to not make any mistakes. Also very important, once you SWEEP the key, your funds will be sent from your paper wallet to one of the address(es) in electrum, your paper wallet will no longer have funds and therefore you need to take back up of your seed of electrum or you will end up losing your funds.