Electrum issue restoring via seeds

Question

I have an electrum wallet on a server

I use 'electrum getseed' and the 12 word seed is returned.

Then on a separate local machine I restore the wallet with the seed.

No funds available.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this.

Edit: It looks like the local electrum wallet is not loading addresses that the server created outside the gap limit with --force. Any ideas on how to make local machine load these

Note: Wallet has under 2$. Could this be a 'too little btc issue'

Note: Tried seed on Exodus, says 'Invalid Key'

Answer 1

It looks like the local electrum wallet is not loading addresses that the server created outside the gap limit with --force. Any ideas on how to make local machine load these

Increase the gap limit. Go to view menu > show console, switch to console tab and enter this command:

wallet.change_gap_limit(100)

Then wait for the balance to update in the bottom left corner. If that doesn't do it try a slightly larger number.

Also note that you have to be using a recent version of electrum. Old versions don't sync anymore so make sure you are using the latest version from electrum.org. A version that doesn't sync will not reflect an accurate view of your wallet.

Answer 2

on a separate local machine I restore the wallet with the seed ... No funds available.

See

• How to recover an electrum wallet from seed
• A Beginners guide to Electrun

The latter says:

After restoring your wallet, Electrum may list previous transactions as “unverified.” This condition will persist until all Electrum finishes synchronization with its server. You can monitor progress from the Network window. Access it by clicking on the circle to the lower right of the main window. When the block count under “Blockchain” equals the height indicated for the servers you’re connecting to, Electrum will be fully synchronized and all confirmed transactions should be displayed properly under the History tab.

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Tried seed on Exodus, says 'Invalid Key'

Electrum has it's own systems for generating private-keys from seed phrases. It does not normally use the BIP-39 standard which is commonly used by other wallets.

Exodus' documentation doesn't mention importing Electrum seed-phrases so far as I can see.

In Can I import a private-key they say

IMPORTANT NOTE: This does not actually "import" the private key. It just moves the funds from the address into Exodus and this transfer has transactions fees. This is because Exodus uses one 12-word restore phrase to restore all funds. So, to be able to restore funds from the 12-word phrase, Exodus must do this transfer.

To me, it seems that using Exodus is a poor choice to check the balance of an Electrum wallet.

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