Quote from: DireWolfM14 on March 14, 2023, 10:00:07 PM

Quote from: Lavey666 on March 14, 2023, 09:26:02 PM

i open the backup with electrum wallet and show me the addreses and balance, but ask me for password when i want sned btc

That sounds weird to me. As far as I know, if your wallet is encrypted with a password you won't be able to open it without the password. If you are able to open the wallet without a password, then it's not encrypted, and you should be able to send without a password. The only way you would be able to open a wallet without a password and not be able to send funds from that wallet is if an external signer is needed, such as a hardware wallet. A watch-only wallet will not allow you to send, so it won't ask for a password either.

Sorry if I'm missing something, but again I don't know of a scenario that would lead to the issue you've described.

electrum offers secrets only encryption where you can open the wallet file and view transactions and balance without providing the password. you only need to provide the password when sending bitcoin or trying to view the seed.

Quote from: Lavey666 on March 15, 2023, 01:00:11 AM

i think i opened without a password the back up file, then its a watch only wallet because i can see all the transations but still cannot use the btc, i believe this btc is lost, thank u for your help

it's not a watch only wallet. it's just encrypted differently (secrets only encryption).

look up btcrecover which is an open source python script for bruteforcing electrum passwords.

https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/