Please run 'zcashd-wallet-tool' even though I already have

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Please run 'zcashd-wallet-tool' even though I already have

Opened this issue 2 years ago · 12 comments

I'm still getting No accounts. Please run 'zcashd-wallet-tool' to create your wallet first..., but I already ran that (twice). When I tried to run it the first time, it said I needed to add -exportdir to the command line. I put -exportdir=C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Zcash and it created export20220730. I've tried running zcashd both with the -exportdir parameter and without it, and both give the same results.

Any ideas?

Answer 1 · 2022-08-01T17:07:40.000Z

Please make sure that the tool finishes running and that you actually have some accounts. The tool will export the seed phrase and check that you have it.

Did the tool finish successfully?

Answer 2 · 2022-08-01T22:23:04.000Z

Yep. It finished running and had me verify 3 of the words.

Answer 3 · 2022-08-28T07:48:38.000Z

Can confirm, it's a known bug. The new full node zecwallet doesn't work on Windows anymore.

Answer 4 · 2022-09-28T13:21:51.000Z

Been trying to get it to work for a few days on Windows. Can't restore or upgrade an old wallet, can't create a new one. Can't import keys. Tried rolling back versions, no go.

Answer 5 · 2022-09-28T13:51:16.000Z

Please remember that Zecwallet Fullnode is just a UI to the zcashd full node wallet. As such, it needs a fully synced zcashd node, with the wallet initialized to work.

Is your full node synced? The requirements to sync have been getting higher, so this is a fairly resource-intensive process. Also, please note that zcashd is deprecated every 16 weeks, so you can't really go back to an old version.

My only advice for folks having trouble in this thread is to use a light wallet like Zecwallet Lite. You can import your seed phrase or private key into the lightwallet and get access to your funds.

Since The full node wallet depends on zcashd, there isn't much I can do to help.

Answer 6 · 2022-09-28T17:27:18.000Z

Yes, my last step was having a fully sync'd zcashd running and then trying to use the wallet tool to generate the seed. It seems to work but the GUI still says no wallets.

Tried letting it create a new wallet completely, but still gives the error.

I'm currently moving everything to a Debian environment see if I have better luck there.

Did try the lite wallet, but I'm trying to recover the funds in a shielded address.

Answer 7 · 2022-09-28T19:00:20.000Z

Ok, at some point on Windows the zcashd decided to do a "Rescanning". After it did this, I am able to access my wallet in the GUI and my private keys look to be correct.

Perhaps this is just an order of operations problem on the user end.

Answer 8 · 2022-10-24T14:27:53.000Z

Ok, at some point on Windows the zcashd decided to do a "Rescanning". After it did this, I am able to access my wallet in the GUI and my private keys look to be correct.

Perhaps this is just an order of operations problem on the user end.

I installed v1.8.3 & got same error
It did a rescan & synced fully but I am still getting same error & I can see the DB folder & wallet.dat are being read about every 10 min
Any help is appreciated

Answer 9 · 2023-02-02T06:47:10.000Z

Can confirm this issue. I can see my balance within zcashd, but Zecwallet cannot find any account.
(It also fails to start the integrated zcashd itself, so maybe these issues are related?

Funnily, even while the UI is in this error state clicking on File => Export Transactions works...

Answer 10 · 2023-02-04T05:42:06.000Z

It's a bug but you can solve it by calling zcash-cli z_getnewaccount it will create an account in the wallet with no addresses but it's enough to make UI happy.

Example:

skiron@machine:~/crypto/zec$ ./zcash-cli z_listaccounts
[
]

skiron@machine:~/crypto/zec$ ./zcash-cli z_getnewaccount
{
  "account": 0
}

skiron@machine:~/crypto/zec$ ./zcash-cli z_listaccounts
[
  {
    "account": 0,
    "addresses": [
    ]
  }
]

Now I don't know if this affects the seed (HD addresses generation) should not but just saying, zcash is so buggy you never know...

Answer 11 · 2023-02-04T05:49:16.000Z

@agowa338 to overcome "fails to start the integrated zcashd itself", please see
#388 (comment)

Answer 12 · 2023-02-04T13:01:56.000Z

@skironDotNet I cannot confirm that your workaround is fully working. The UI may not show any error message now, BUT it also doesn't work. It only shows as "connected", however I cannot click on anything. It still doesn't show anything else than a blank page.

When running the GUI from terminal it shows two -4058 errors. one for the AddressBook.json and one for senttxstore.dat.