[Ethereum] missing ether after uninstalling metamask

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Lost my ether from Metamask when I uninstalled it and it did not show up when reinstalled…but it is showing on Etherdelta with the no private key error in red. How do I recover it please? I'm leery of fooling around with private keys. Many thanks.

Best Answer

To restore your old MetaMask accounts, you need to have backed up your 12-word seed phrase.

When setting up MetaMask for the first time, it has a button for "Restore from seed phrase", but if you missed that part, you can still do it by these steps:

Select "Lock" in the top right menu.
Click "Restore from seed phrase"
Enter your 12-word seed phrase and a new password.
Click restore.
You will only have one account restored at first, click "Add account" (top right account menu) for any missing accounts.

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Ether – How to Transfer Ether Out of a Paper Wallet

If you just want to view or transfer your funds around, you're right that a private key is enough. You can use MyEtherWallet (beware of scam sites) to do so.

https://www.myetherwallet.com/#view-wallet-info

https://www.myetherwallet.com/#send-transaction

And unlock with your private key.

MetaMask – How to View Total MetaMask Balance

You can get the balance of a single account via:

web3.eth.getBalance(address);

By default you will get all accounts of metamask. (this code uses await and therefore has to be placed within an async function)

const accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();

What you get is an array with all the accounts. Now it is up to you to loop through them and sum up the balance.

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