Re: My whole transaction history has disappeared, i cannot access my coins

Quote from: Numerous64 on September 12, 2017, 07:59:30 PM

As i said before, i do not have the wrong seed and i can restore it from the seed the same way i can open it from the file, but i cant tell the difference because neither option shows me my transaction history. I have the correct file, i have the correct seed and i have 6.6 bitcoins stored, but due to reason X i am not seeing them.

I sure hope i didnt just lose 6.6 bitcoins because of electrums technical errors. I wasnt even aware that these kinds of things could happen and just assumed that holding my funds in electrum will indeed keep them safe.

Do you have any record of the addresses that you used that contain the coins? If so, do you see these addresses in Electrum? If you don't see those same addresses in your wallet, then it is highly likely that you're opening the wrong wallet file (Electrum can have several wallet files)... and/or the seed that you have written down is NOT the seed for your wallet with 6.6 BTC in it... Undecided

It is also possible that for some weird reason the addresses with the coins are out beyond Electrum's default gap limit of 20 "receive" and 5 "change" addresses.

Quote from: Numerous64 link=2130374.msg21288436#msg21288436

I made a bad call and moved my BTC two years ago to a tails operating system USB stick for storage,

What exactly did you move to USB? did you create a new Electrum wallet and send your coins to it or did you just copy the wallet file to the USB? If you just copied it, it is possible that you originally copied the wrong wallet file and copied an empty wallet... If you created a new wallet, it is possible that you were opening the wrong wallet file and using a wallet you did not actually have the seed for... it seems to be a somewhat common mistake.

I doubt that it is a "technical error" with Electrum.