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almindor / etherwall

Ethereum QT5 Wallet
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no password #62

Closed Fluppert closed 6 years ago

Fluppert commented 6 years ago

Hi, I am new with this wallet. When you install it for the first time you have already two accounts without setting any password. I probably should have made a new acount but I didn't. I bought some Ethereum right away and I have them into my account. My problem now is I can 't send it anywhere because I am asked for the password and as I said I don't have one. Can this issue be resolved? Regards, Philippe

almindor commented 6 years ago

Hello,

Etherwall uses Geth (the commandline ethereum node/client) same as the official wallet does. This means that when you create accounts, etherwall tells Geth to do so and Geth stores the account encrypted files.

Etherwall does not create any accounts by default. What you got were two accounts that had to be created previously on your computer by either Geth or Mist (Ethereum Wallet) via Geth beforehand.

Are you sure you never ran any other Ethereum wallet before? The passwords would be the ones you used to create those accounts originally.

You can check out the files to see their creation date and maybe try to remember if you set something up at that time. If you're on windows the default account file location should be C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Ethereum\keystore

The files are named UTC--<timestamp>--<address>

Check the timestamp in the name and the creation time in the file properties to see when they were created.

I'm afraid that if you don't know the passwords originally used to create these accounts then there's no way to send anything out.

Fluppert commented 6 years ago

Thanks Almindor. You are right and I did make a password. I thought this was from another account but it worked. Regards, philippe