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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: RESTORING ELECTRUM FROM 2014
by
HCP
on 09/01/2021, 00:16:07 UTC
Based on your screenshots, it would appear that the 12 word recover phrase that you have written down, is not the correct phrase for the wallet you were originally using and receiving your BTC to. If it was the correct phrase, you would see all your history.

Electrum seed phrases are "versioned", so it should automatically detect what type of seed phrase you enter... and indeed that seems to be the case, as it created an "old" keystore type:
and second wallet showed information
   wallet type - standard
    script type - P2PKH
   seed available-TRUE
   keystore type - OLD
  lightning - Not available for this wallet
That would line up with a wallet that was created back in 2014.

However, as your transaction history is empty, and the wallet is synced (green dot in lower right corner), then it's safe to assume that this wallet is in fact empty. You either need to recover your original wallet file, or you need to find the correct seed phrase, because the current seed phrase you have is not the one you need to recover your funds.