Thank you hosemary!

I've never needed to recover a wallet from a seed, but let's say I lost a wallet that had used a 1000 address or more. After I restore the wallet, I need to run something like this from the electrum console:


to create 2000 more addresses before I can spend from that wallet again? Or is it better to increase the gap limit. Does one clutter up the wallet less than another? Lets say someone inherits this wallet seed. How do they know when to stop generating addresses to find the value of the wallet?

I'm sorry that this question has probably been asked a thousand times.

Thanks!