thanks for the info and that worked. The transaction is sitting in the history showing amount and balance but only 1 confirmation has completed. Guessing this takes a while?
1 confirmation means that it's already included in a block, you can now spend it.
The consecutive confirmations are just for safety against double-spend attacks (
not that it's usual), the higher the safer your bitcoins are;
it'll take
approximately 10minutes per confirmation.
But wait, you haven't read my other reply,
figures because there's one confirmation, means that you've swept (
sweep) it.
There's not much issue as long as the recipient wallet isn't watching-only and you own the wallet where it was swept.