Quote from: HCP on May 18, 2017, 04:44:27 AM

You'll probably find that it is because this time you left the "Encrypt Wallet" option checked when setting the wallet password. If the wallet is encrypted, you need the password to decrypt it before the program can read it Wink

if it isn't encrypted, the main interface comes up straight away, but you obviously need the password to sign transactions etc (keys are always encrypted, regardless of whether or not the wallet file is)

If you goto: Wallet -> Password... put in a new password and uncheck the "Encrypt Wallet" and then restart, you'll find it won't come up with the "Install Wizard" Wink

Thank you for the assistance and your above comment appears to be correct.

Getting back to the problem of a non starting / hanging / acting weird Electrum wallet, I pulled everything out again and started fresh, paid for Malwarebytes because I freaked out but really there is no virus.
My hunch of what the problem is I think relates to my usage of Electrum.
Electrum is perfect for what I do, it has a non-pansy display with just text and has the features I need to push transactions thru faster and I can see what is going on with them within the app.

My usage involves trading, all day, every day, and in the past two months there would be, god knows how many, back and forth transactions with Electrum with just the one wallet.
I did some testing of a new install of Electrum and let it give me a new seed of words, Electrum works fine, opens, syncs, exits, just like before.
I then created a new wallet with the current install and gave it my original seed, totally different story in the way electrum works.

New Electrum wallet = 2KB in size

My problem Original wallet = 8983KB found out after it finished a new sync that it stores a ton of crap, I assume this will just try to get bigger.

I think this has something to do with the problem.

I have also noticed that Electrum struggles to open or show any window when starting up if that large wallet file resides in the wallet directory, as if it is doing some sort of pre-opening of each wallet to check what format they are perhaps. When I delete the large wallet, that issue goes away.
If the original wallet file has never synced before, electrum of course will open as the file starts life as only 2KB but once it has synced, if I re-start electrum, bang, it hates that big file then.

While I have a ton of Ram, 64Gb in a new Dual Xeon, the problem seems to relate to how the software is coping with tons of data, obviously wants to load the whole lot.

This tends to be somewhat disappointing as I feel that what is happening here for me is that I will get maybe two months of trading and then have to create a fresh wallet of addresses and swap to that.
Its annoying because there are backup printouts to change, addresses on other sites sending to my wallet to change.
Not convenient but to keep the features Electrum offers I will put up with that and just do regular wallet changes, perhaps using a date range as the name of the wallet file.
I do wonder how other wallets handle high usage or perhaps they do not try to join the dots so to speak and do not try to load past events.

To tell the truth I am pretty happy I discovered this and I can go on using it knowing it's got limits.

Comments ?