<p>Be sure that you are entering the correct password you've set (be careful with added blank spaces, keyboard localization...). You can try to crack your own password if you remember most of it.</p>

<p>Maybe the transactions that you remember were on imported keys? If so, they are only in that encrypted wallet file. Your seed can only restore the keys derived from it.</p>

<p>Electrum servers are all the same and give the same information (they only differ from hardware).</p>

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rdymac
<p><strong>Update</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Well, it was my bad, dreadfully sorry guys. My bad with the password
  and seed, mixed some things up :(  Everything restored successfully.</p>
</blockquote>

<hr>

<p>I use Electrum 1.8.1 (portable edition) and have some mBTCs in my wallet (electrum.dat). I tried to send a payment and was asked to type the password which I had set before. The password is kept in KeePass, I pasted it from KeePass and... "invalid password". But it is correct for sure.</p>

<p>I have the seed (12 words) well kept. I tried to restore the wallet with the seed, after backuping my electrum.dat and deleting it, but if I paste the seed words and the wallet is created and synchronized, I'm told the wallet has no transaction history (therefore, no money there).</p>

<p>I tried these ideas as you can see above: <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=261777.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=261777.0</a> and <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170610.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170610.0</a></p>

<p>Questions:</p>

<p>1) How could it happen that Electrum says the password is invalid when trying to send the money?</p>

<p>2) How could it happen that no transaction history is detected after using the seed (12 words) to restore the wallet?</p>

<p>3) Does it have anything to do with the list of Electrum servers? It is shown when I try to restore the wallet using the seed. If yes, do I have to try every server from the list to understand which one keeps the data about my wallet?</p>

<p>4) How do I recover my mBTCs from the Electrum wallet? I see the number I have, but can't send because of the password issue.</p>

<p>The first experience with Bitcoins and kind of frustrating... I hope I've explained the situation more or less well.</p>

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Glad that you find it out.
rdymac
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As it turns out this was user error and the premise for the question is gone.
Dr.Haribo
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Can't pay with Electrum - invalid password?
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# Can't pay with Electrum - invalid password?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-10-12)

**Update**

> Well, it was my bad, dreadfully sorry guys. My bad with the password
> and seed, mixed some things up :( Everything restored successfully.

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I use Electrum 1.8.1 (portable edition) and have some mBTCs in my wallet (electrum.dat). I tried to send a payment and was asked to type the password which I had set before. The password is kept in KeePass, I pasted it from KeePass and... "invalid password". But it is correct for sure.

I have the seed (12 words) well kept. I tried to restore the wallet with the seed, after backuping my electrum.dat and deleting it, but if I paste the seed words and the wallet is created and synchronized, I'm told the wallet has no transaction history (therefore, no money there).

I tried these ideas as you can see above: <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=261777.0> and <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170610.0>

Questions:

1) How could it happen that Electrum says the password is invalid when trying to send the money?

2) How could it happen that no transaction history is detected after using the seed (12 words) to restore the wallet?

3) Does it have anything to do with the list of Electrum servers? It is shown when I try to restore the wallet using the seed. If yes, do I have to try every server from the list to understand which one keeps the data about my wallet?

4) How do I recover my mBTCs from the Electrum wallet? I see the number I have, but can't send because of the password issue.

The first experience with Bitcoins and kind of frustrating... I hope I've explained the situation more or less well.

**Tags:** client, electrum, portable

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Glad that you find it out.  
> **username_2**: As it turns out this was user error and the premise for the question is gone.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-10-13. Score: 1

Be sure that you are entering the correct password you've set (be careful with added blank spaces, keyboard localization...). You can try to crack your own password if you remember most of it.

Maybe the transactions that you remember were on imported keys? If so, they are only in that encrypted wallet file. Your seed can only restore the keys derived from it.

Electrum servers are all the same and give the same information (they only differ from hardware).


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