When you’ve got your pockets seed it’s wonderful:
From what I perceive, your cash are secure, they won’t be misplaced so long as you’ve gotten pockets seed. When reimporting, Electrum would simply not look far sufficient to search out every little thing, till you nudge it a bit.
Clarification:
The hole restrict provides the variety of addresses that Electrum will generate from the seed ranging from the final handle that it discovered a steadiness on.
The error message tells you that Electrum would not discover a few of your addresses by itself, as a result of Electrum would assume that it arrived on the finish of your transaction historical past, earlier than all of your transaction historical past is found.
Instance to make it graphic:
- Hole restrict = 3
- S is Seed
- I handle with steadiness
- • handle with out steadiness.
- X handle with steadiness past gap-limit
An arbitrary transaction historical past:
You may have a steadiness on a couple of addresses, already spent/did not use some addresses intermittently, and you then skipped a bunch (5 right here) for some purpose earlier than receiving balances on some extra.
SIIII•III••I•III•I•IIII•••••XXX
^hole^
The hole of 5 is greater than the at the moment set hole restrict of three, so now, reimporting the seed, Electrum would solely regenerate to:
SIIII•III••I•III•I•IIII•••
final used handle ^ +3
As a result of it can solely regenerate gap-limit unused addresses after an handle with a steadiness.
Should you set the hole restrict greater (within the instance to 6), or use the beforehand unused addresses that make up the hole, Electrum will rediscover the addresses.
The imported pockets to date:
SIIII•III••I•III•I•IIII•••
Obtain 4 new transactions N:
SIIII•III••I•III•I•IIIINNNN••XXX
^ oh, that "new handle" was used!
Restoration of all addresses with balances plus gap-limit new addresses:
SIIII•III••I•III•I•IIIIIIII••III•••
Altogether, it should not be a lot of an issue. Electrum ought to in all probability be capable of safely retailer hundreds of addresses, so until you created a humongous hole, in all probability no want to consider any issues there.
So, what you may wish to do, is determine simply what number of addresses you’ve gotten now generated out of your pockets seed. Should you then wish to get better your pockets on one other pc, simply generate the identical quantity of addresses or quickly improve the hole restrict till you’ve gotten the identical variety of addresses.