Re: how to access missing balances at higher indexes

Quote from: LoyceV on March 17, 2025, 08:42:15 AM

Code:

wallet.change_gap_limit(50000)

After I clicked the Addresses tab, Electrum got stuck. I killed it after eating 1 CPU core for 1.5 hours.

Your UI is basically generating 50000 objects and rendering them to have a "graphic representation" and UIs are not designed to render so many objects Tongue

Quote from: hosemary on March 17, 2025, 11:07:40 PM

Quote from: Abdussamad on March 17, 2025, 05:04:23 PM

Actually you don't have to change the gap limit at all. You can use the following command in the console to get the private key for a specific index:

Code:

getprivatekeyforpath("m/0'/50000")

I didn't know about this command. Thanks for sharing that, but I think you should remove the apostrophe after the 0 and the command should be getprivatekeyforpath("m/0/50000"). Otherwise, you will get an incorrect private key.

Please correct me, if I am missing something.

You are onto something. Let me complete it a little.
The derivation path depends on the wallet/mnemonic type. This is its short list:

Standard (legacy) wallets @ m/0/
SegWit wallets @ m/0'/0/
2FA wallets (both legacy and SegWit) @ m/1'/0/

So if OP's wallet was a legacy one, then command for 50000th address should indeed be getprivatekeyforpath("m/0/50000")