I started using Decred experimentally on the web wallet at wallet.decred.org and wrote down my seed like I should. Later I decided to run the Mac OSX wallet. After install it offered to make a new wallet buy I chose to import a wallet and added my seed as I had copied it. I was given 2 wallets, one with ID 0 and an "imported" one. I have since deposited DCR into my "primary"(?) wallet, the one with id 0, and it lists it correctly in the OSX app. However I went back and checked the web wallet and it does not show the balance. Questions: 1. Have I made a horrible mistake??? 2. If i loose my mac wallet (HD failure etc.) Will the seed I copied from my web wallet still work and include my current balance, or was it used up after the import? 3. If the seed I wrote down from my web wallet, which I used to create the mac one is no longer good, what steps can I take to backup my current funds? ie. should I make a new wallet with a new seed and move the balance over? 4. Is it not possible to access my wallet on more than one platform by using the same seed to set it up?
Well... I blew away my browser cache and did an "import" wallet on the web site. It gave me a "wallet successfully imported"... sure enough balance of 0. So, I that means my seed is like a snapshot in time before I made a deposit. However I have a running Decrediton which shows my balance, but likely my seed would not recover it. Problem is, i'd prefer to use Decrediton. Does that mean the solution is to make a brand new web wallet move my DCR over there, then uninstall (gulp!) and reinstall Decrediton to get a new seed, then move the coin back from the web to my fresh mac wallet? Also, has anyone successfully used the seed to recover their OSX wallet? After "successfully" importing a balance of 0, I'm having doubts.
Ok my friend Im glad I was bored and found myself here... I as well had difficulty. What I needed to do to ensure success was, just download decredation again and name it a new name " decredation 2" and it should open fresh and you can imply seed there. Seeds will never 'go bad' Goodluck. I paid a reward to our community that figured this out for me....
Thanks for the reply. Since I was able to access the original install of the osx app (initialized with my first seed from the webapp) I did some testing. First, I shape shifted my decred elsewhere except for a tiny sum. Then I tried to make another wallet using the same, one-and-only seed that I started with. No matter what I tried it always yielded a balance of 0, even though my Decrediton wallet had an actual balance visible on the block explorer. Finally I uninstalled everything and re-installed, using the same seed, and sure enough, balance of 0. My tiny sum was gone forever. Still determined to give Decred a try, I did a clean install of the osx app and generated a new seed. I put another tiny sum in the wallet. Then I uninstalled the app and re-installed it using the new seed generated by the app. Worked great. I then sent some and received some tiny transactions through Shapeshift to generate a different balance. I nuked the app again and re-installed and initialized using the osx app's seed. Now it showed the latest balance. Works perfect. My conclusion is this: If you start an account using the web app, and copy that seed. DO NO USE THE WEBAPP SEED TO INITIALIZE DECREDITON ON OSX. This consistently caused the newly installed app to show a snapshot of the last state of the webapp, regardless of what happened afterwords in the native app. Pick one platform and use it, but don't try to restore from one platform to another with the same seed.