hi decred-folks! i've been watching/learning about/mining decred for some time now and decided to join the forum as well. now this is my first post, please bear with me as i am far from being a decred-pro... so what i'm currently wondering about is if the same seed should lead to the same new addresses. i first setup dcrd v0.7.0 on a spare computer for making my first steps with it. i never had any balance on it but wanted to get familiar with the syntaxes and functionality. upgrade to v0.8.2 went smoothly. at some stage i created an additional account in my wallet and gave it a name. later i decided to better run my wallet on my server where it can be online 24/7 for (later planned) PoS. therefore i used my wallets seed (hex) during the setup (v0.8.2) on the server which seemed to have worked allright (no errors shown). later i upgraded to v1.0.1 without any issues as it seems. now what seemed odd to me is that when i ran 'dcrctl -u <username> -P <pwd> --wallet getnewaddress' i did not get the same address as on my other pc. this doesn't really matter as there was no balance on any of the other addresses but i somehow thought the addresses would be the same (generated deterministically)? when running validateaddress on some known addresses of my old wallet, they are correctly displayed as valid, mine and belonging to account "default" but they won't be listed by './dcrctl -u <username> -P <pwd> --wallet getaddressesbyaccount "default"'. in fact, the latter command doesn't return any addresses! is this how things should be? furthermore, the additional account created was not listed upon 'dcrctl -u <username> -P <pwd> --wallet listaccounts' and an address i had received earlier for this account could also not be verified to belong to my wallet though 'dcrctl -u <username> -P <pwd> --wallet validateaddress <address>' albeit it seems to be valid. so how would one recover his wallets additional accounts only with his seed? would it be listed if it had some balance or is there something else than one needs to do (e.g. rescan)? looking though the list of wallet-commands i noticed the 'dumpwallet "filename"' entry but when trying it all i got was 'Request unsupported by dcrwallet'. no help seems to be available for this either. so for now i think it would be the best thing to create a new wallet from scratch and better use this but even then i'm left wondering how one would correctly restore his/her wallet with all accounts from seed. any hints on that would be very welcome as i would like to understand what i'm doing here oh, of course i did read the faq-entry stating that running multiple wallets on the same seed is not a good idea but i somehow thought that might mean to run them at the same time. is my understanding correct here? thanks and cheers, anti
this thread ( in forum-sub-section addresses) seems to address a similar issue but it's unclear if the user finally was able to find the missing account in the end and it lacks an explanation...