Quote from: HCP on September 13, 2017, 12:28:58 PM

Rescanning is something usually reserved for clients like Bitcoin Core. You don't need to rescan for Electrum.

I think you misunderstand my point about having the wrong seed and wrong file...

2 years ago, you had Wallet A with Seed A and Wallet B with Seed B... For whatever reason, you wrote down Seed B and started sending coins to address(es) in Wallet A... then you backed up Wallet B.

So now, 2 years later... you have Wallet B file with no transactions and no coins... and matching Seed B, which just regenerates your empty wallet.

No, i sent coins to wallet A from a paper wallet and the password i have of wallet A corresponds to the seed which i have on paper when i open the file and ask for the seed. Ive used the same wallet to send coins.

Quote from: HCP on September 13, 2017, 12:28:58 PM

Rescanning is something usually reserved for clients like Bitcoin Core. You don't need to rescan for Electrum.

However, if your current wallet has addresses that you can lookup on blockchain.info and see coins, then it could indeed some sort of network issue with Electrum. Do you have any record of old addresses that you used back when you initially sent the coins?

Under "Tools -> Network", you should see a value labelled "Blockchain"... if the number of blocks is equal to the current block height of Bitcoin Network (485020 at the time of this message) then your Electrum is sync'd OK.

If it is less than that number, then your Electrum is not synced properly. You might need to try a different server

485084 at this moment.

Tried multiple servers.

I also have no issue importing other wallets successfully.

Quote from: Abdussamad on September 13, 2017, 04:25:35 PM

Quote from: jackg on September 13, 2017, 04:20:43 PM

I'm not particularly sure any of his public keys would be exposed. However @op if you have a problem with this, you can PM me or the user I just quoted with the public key.

I said private key not public key. Any one private key + the MPK = whole wallet compromized. There is no reason to believe any of the OP's private keys have been exposed. Just saying that exposing the MPK is not entirely risk free.

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Also, if the seed formats are the same and a new wallet is created then an xpub key should be created shouldn't it? Otherwise, the problem op is facing is merely a compatibility issue.

No that's not the case. Electrum maintains backward compatibility with old seed formats. The MPK would be of the old type too.

@Numerous64: You haven't answered the question HCP posed about familiar addresses. Can you bring the address tab into view with ctrl+a and see if any familiar addresses are listed there?

Also please answer the question I posed above regarding sweeping vs. importing.

crtl+a does not seem to do anything, but from view>show addresses i get a bunch of empty addresses.

I dont remember how i did it exactly, but i had like a casascius cold wallet, and i got its private key into my electrum with someones instructions somehow. I honestly dont remember, but ive used electrum to send bitcoins after that from the same wallet.