Have you checked every address in your wallet for a balance? And is your node 100% synced? When you import private keys it has to rescan the entire blockchain, this can take awhile.
As far as I can see, the 2 T addresses shown here are completely different from the ones I had before (in the address book).
@johnwisdom I’ve checked the zcash explorer and the balance is ok. All the zecs were transferred from my 1st address labeled Mining to the 2nd address labeled Store.
I don’t understand why I don’t see my original 2 T addresses anymore and instead I have the 2 new ones.
Did you ever backup wallet.dat with the old keys in it?
Maybe an upgrade resetted the file for some reason, or it installed in a different path and the old wallet.dat is in the old installation folder.
If you don’t find your old keys I suggest you to try data recovery, so try to use your HD less as possible till you restore your original wallet.dat
Did you somehow copy/replace your wallet.dat file? Note that ZecWallet doesn’t store any t-addresses directly, it just looks it from your wallet.dat file.
If you have the private keys for your t addresses, you can try to import them into ZecWallet
The “original 2 addresses” - How did you get them? Do you have a wallet.dat backed up from when you created them or do you have their private keys?
I created the first one (labeled Mining) with the old wallet (zcash4win) back in November 2017. This one had all of my zecs.
I’ve created the second one (labeled Store) 5 days ago and transferred all the zecs from the first one as a part of the steps needed to claim the yecs (check the steps in my first post).
The zcash explorer shows the transaction and the balance is ok.
I also have the private key for the 1st address labeled Mining, but unfortunately I did not export the key for the 2nd address labeled Store
I’ll try the re-scan first thing in the morning.
Thanks for trying to help me everyone, much appreciated.
You have not stated if you moved the ZEC again to another privkey after importing into YEC. I assume you haven’t.
This private key (store) holds all your ZEC. look up the associated public address in the block explorer to confirm this.
The private keys you imported into YecWallet, get that file, and reimport those private keys (just really the one you created in step 3). back in to zec wallet.
Rescan the blockchain.
You should now see your ZEC balance on that one address.
Proof you are fine:
“Store” is the private key you imported into YEC.
Yes you did, it is in the YEC wallet at least. I cannot see any reason you can have lost zec funds over this. It is the same private key. if you can see your yec, you still have the zec privkey. Even without a backup. Try export it from yec and reimport it into zec. This will work at a minimum.
The rescan is very important. You will not see your old addresses again but Store will come up. Like you said it is there on the blockchain, and the yec wallet at the very least knows the private key to that zec, you might be able to speed the process up by importing the relevant pubkey with the privkey. but to be 100% sure just privkey and rescan.
I didn’t not realize that the private key is the same for the “Store” zec address and the new yec address.
That means that I have both private keys:
The first one for the original “Mining” address from the old export, before I created the second one
The second one for the “Store” address since I can export it from YecWallet
If this is correct, should I then import both private keys into ZecWallet and start a rescan through Edit → Settings → Troubleshooting?
What @mistfpga said (got busy outside the internet and didn’t have the ability to reply)
The private keys you imported into YecWallet, get that file, and reimport those private keys (just really the one you created in step 3). back in to zec wallet. Rescan the blockchain. You should now see your ZEC balance on that one address.
That is why I asked how you updated your version of the wallet, sounds like you just installed a new version, didn’t update your existing one.
I’ve simply downloaded the new version from github and ran the install over the same location where the previous version was installed (c:\Program Files (x86)\zec-qt-wallet)
Take note that the datadir is on other location, different drive actually.
