I had been using Electrum for 6 months and has been working fantastic, then quite out of the blue I went in to the sending tab to set up a bitcoin transfer, something odd in that send tab page was a lined frame around the lower half of the window (something to do with invoices?) which from memory is normally blank, never seen that before, set up the normal send details and clicked send, but it didnt do anything. Exited electrum, restarted and a different window came up "Electrum - Install Wizard" telling me my default_wallet was enrypted and to enter the password (should already know that, I set it up), I do that and click next, nothing happens, hangs there forever.
Unintall electrum, remove the electrum data files by hand manually, check for viruses, restart the PC.
Install electrum, enter the seed and password, going again, electrum very slow to update from the servers but eventually shows my bitcoin. Great. Lets re-test it.
Exit electrum re-start electrum, pops up the same install wizard window telling me the default_wallet is encrypted, entered the password for it again and clicked next, then it hangs again doing nothing.
Why is that install wizard coming up after I have fully installed correctly, why might it hang? I've not installed anything else that may have interfered with it.
Is there a log that could have recorded something?
Latest version, fairly new Xeon PC, tons of ram. I keep checking for viruses and reinstalling electrum but always now same result.
5 full removal and install attempts, installs seem to work each time and seems usable if I do not exit that first start up but always a restart has this bizzare problem and it wont go.
All other software works well, I have had to switch to Exodus just so I can have a working wallet.
I like Electrum because of the replace by fee and custom fee features, got to have it back.
Any Ideas what the hell is going on ?