It boots, but sometimes it fails to start and there is nothing else i can do but shut it down from the power button. Thats why i dont like starting it up in the first place. It no longer starts electrum, and when i tried starting it from the terminal it complained something about the config. file getting an error.
Wait, should it ask for my password when i open the file itself, or only when i ask for the seed/perform operations? It doesent ask the password for opening it.
It will only ask for the password to open the file if the file has been encrypted... which was a relatively "new" feature... so an older file probably wouldn't be encrypted (only the seed/private keys inside it). So, an older file would only ask for password when doing tasks involving private keys or viewing the seed etc)