This happened last night, I removed the Wallet / Paymetheus from my computer to put it on my laptop... When I restored my seed this morning I only had the "default" account and my other account attached to the wallet which has over 100 DCR is now gone, nowhere to be found. My Default Account is fine, has the correct amount of DCR, but my other account which was just for staking, is now gone. Someone said to do an account restore via dcrwallet? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Edit: I was able to find the files and loaded Daemon with dcrwallet, trying to see if there's a way to get the address back but not sure what exact commands to put in. EDIT: FIXED. Thanks to Gravity's post. Send me your DCR addy Grav and I'll send you 1 DCR for your help.
So my other account that's not default was mainly used for staking, is my account gone because I sent the funds to be staked, and if the funds come back from staking, will they end up in my default account? I just don't understand how an entire account disappears...
So the voting account is only used to generate one of the keys for the 1-of-2 multisig script that is needed to create a vote or revocation transaction. The second key is the stakepool's key. Because paymetheus doesn't vote, and only the stakepool uses its key to create votes, the wallet isn't picking up any use of the account when doing a restore. (this is probably fixable, but right now this is how it is) If you do want that account, just create it.
Thank you. My only concern is that I still had funds in the account, (ie. I spent 70 for a ticket and had 78 in the account), so there's 8 DCR left.. You would think the account would still be there after a restore especially if there's funds in it?.. In any case, if I don't create the account name (because i don't remember exactly the account name), will the funds still come back into my main account after voting is done?
Could you please try doing a seed restore with dcrwallet instead of Paymetheus? I'm curious whether you are hitting some sort of account restore bug in Paymetheus. If there are (regular) funds controlled by private keys of that account, the restore should have picked them up.
When running dcrwallet /l or /h I don't see a seed restore function, can you point me in the right direction in terms of a command? Hope it fixes it and will let you know.
You'd have to delete your wallet.db files in the dcrwallet application directory and create a new wallet with `dcrwallet --create` and using your seed when the wallet asks if you want to make a new one or restore from seed.
Thanks grateful, so I did the full seed restore how you mentioned, but now I'm not sure what I'm suppose to do, there's no command for dcrwallet to check balance, should I go into Paymethus again or? I tried dcrctl but wasn't able to get anything to work command wise.
The dcrctl command to check your balance would be: dcrctl --wallet getbalance If that doesn't work, paste the error here.
First off, thank you so much for taking the time to troubleshoot and help me, it means alot. So when I try dcrctl --wallet getbalance I get a "401 unauthorized". This was after loading dcrd and dcrwallet, unlocking the wallet with no time limit... When dcrd and dcrwallet are closed and I try using dcrctl --wallet getbalance I get this... "Post https://localhost:9110: dial tcp [::1]:9110: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."
use the -u and -P options to set the RPC user/password that you configured dcrd to use (should be the same options that you set on the wallet command line or in your config).
I'm having this issue now... i tried to restart from scratch with seed, and my 2nd acct is now missing in PM. I'm told it's a PM issue and to use the CLI. Any links to how to accomplish a check of my balances
Nope, I'm out basically 44 DCR. I pretty much decided to give up and maybe it will pop up in my account some day.
That's not good. I would have hoped a Dev would have walked you through the recovery steps, if it's as difficult as it seems to be.
Yea they tried, but I was never able to get it resolved. I just bought a mac, wonder if I try the dcr mac software and see if it pops up..
Give it a go mate. I'd be absolutely livid if I lost that much DCR through no fault of your own. The way it's described, you just need to save your seed phrase and you're fully protected. Doesn't seem to be the case though.
More like sick to my stomach for a month, then slowly trying to block it out of my memory. The devs said it was still there, but I'm not a computer guru, and I couldn't get that far with the command line. I'm still hoping it will come back with a new decred software update or something, but yea, I don't make 2nd accounts anymore, just keep them in my main account.
Hey cryptkeeper1979, did you get this resolved? I actually just did a restore on a new laptop (been using Decred since 2016) and although I feel confident we will get our second account coins back, I feel your discomfort. If you already fixed it great, let me know what you did, otherwise I'll figure it out and share in reverse.
If you are using Paynetheus, you got to create the second account manually again as the seed will only restore the "default" account. (But not any additional account) You can name your second account with any name as it does not matter. Once you have created the second account, head over to "Import Script"and check the rescan box. Sit for a few minutes to let the rescan finish and your funds should be back.