So I’ve an airgapped (utilizing tails os on an outdated laptop computer) electrum (chilly storage) pockets that I beforehand added further receiving addresses by growing the hole restrict: pockets.change_gap_limit(110). I then copied these further addresses to my linked (on-line) electrum watch-only pockets. I’ve used up sufficient of the extra receiving addresses that I went again into my airgapped pockets to generate one other block of receiving addresses.
Nonetheless, once I open my airgapped pockets, I do not see the earlier block of further receiving addresses I generated; I solely see the unique 20 receiving addresses the pockets had once I created it.
So I did learn this warning within the Electrum FAQ:
WARNING: Addresses past the hole restrict is not going to mechanically be recovered from the seed. To get better them would require both growing the shopper’s hole restrict or producing new addresses till the used addresses are discovered.
So I ran the identical command I beforehand ran to extend the hole restrict, anticipating (hoping) to see earlier addresses I generated, however the addresses added to the addresses tab in electrum are a unique block of addresses, which I confirmed with: diff listPreviousAdds listOfNewAdds. Not one deal with from the earlier block of generated addresses reveals up within the new block of generated addresses.
So going by the warning message I pasted above from the Electrum pockets FAQ, what number of new addresses would possibly I have to generate to search out the earlier addresses I generated and have despatched BTC to?
Is there a greater method to take care of including and managing new receiving addresses utilizing electrum, as this process appears slightly hacky. Thks upfront.