Can't get past invalid characters when entering a proper seed.

[dwic72]

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[sweiguny]

Hello,

i shall enter a seed by only upper case letters and number 9. but my seed that i used in the past consists only of lower case letters. so i cant use it now... what should i do?

and when i enter my lower case seed it says, my seed has to less letters...

[sweiguny]

okay, so i got it now. i have to enter a completely new seed, but how to claim my old balance now?

because it shows 0.

[AlexWick]

Sweet, follow instructions for upbringing an old seed. This is found under the tools menu in your iota wallet.

On Jan 4, 2018 12:07 PM, "sweiguny" [email protected] wrote:

okay, so i got it now. i have to enter a completely new seed, but how to claim my old balance now?

because it shows 0.

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[sweiguny]

well, if i use the reclaim tool, it asks me for the old and the new seed, but for the old one it says "invalid old seed". i would like to know, on what base it says, that its invalid.

is it invalid because my seed does not conform to a certain pattern or because the seed does not exist?

[AlexWick]

Probably you wrote down the old see dincorrectly. Double check with your backup backup backup seed written down....or call it a loss and move on....sorry. :/

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:40 PM, sweiguny [email protected] wrote:

well, if i use the reclaim tool, it asks me for the old and the new seed, but for the old one it says "invalid old seed". i would like to know, on what base it says, that its invalid.

is it invalid because my seed does not conform to a certain pattern or because the seed does not exist?

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[jjhesk]

@sweiguny you can generate ur seed by using this cat /dev/urandom |LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Z9' | fold -w 81 | head -n 1