Cannot send ADA when the wallet has NFTs

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Hello everyone,
I just minted 100 NFTs to my wallet, and currently it has 12 ADA in.
Now I want to send 5 ADA to another wallet by Daedalus wallet and the fee is ~ 0.4 ADA. But when I click to send button I got the error
Not enough ADA for fees...

What is wrong? Please give me some information if you guys faced on it before.
Thank you so much!

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Each output of the transaction needs to have at least the min-ADA value. In your example there are two outputs: the first to the other wallet and the second with the change (which includes the 100 NFTs) back to your own wallet. It’s likely that the 7 ADA + 100 NFTs in change is below the min-ADA value. You have three options:

  1. Add more ADA to the wallet from another source, so that the transaction will meet the min-ADA requirement.
  2. Send less than 5 ADA to the other wallet. (You can experiment trying different values to see how close to 5 you can get.)
  3. Burn some of the NFTs, if they are burnable and you have the necessary signing key(s).
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Thank you @bwbush,

#1 and #2 resolved my issue. But I just want to ask how can you calculate to 7 ADA is a minimum that I can keep in the wallet?

And for #3, I tried to burn all NFTs but I cannot burn all of them. I got the issue with ValueNotConservedUTxO

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The min-ADA depends upon the length of the names of the NFTs. This section of the document shows how to do the computation: Min-Ada-Value Requirement — Cardano Ledger 1.0.0 documentation. I’m thinking of creating a simple web page where one can enter the numbers and see what the min-ADA is.

To burn tokens, you need to create a minting transaction, but with a negative value for the --mint argument in cardano-cli transaction build-raw. The incoming UTxO needs to have exactly that number of tokens.

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That’s perfect. It helps us more
For burning token, if I lost the utxo, how can I burn it?

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You can look up the token history on https://tokentool.io/ (which lets you look up tokens by name) and https://cardanoscan.io/ (which lets you look up token transactions once you know the asset ID) to find the UTxO where it is held.

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Thank you for your support!
It is better if on cardano-cli does not require a tx_out with full tokens left

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It’s fine either way–there probably won’t be much difference in the fee. Anyway, your choice of the --tx-in UTxOs pretty much determines what tokens will be in the --tx-out.

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Thank you, sometimes it makes difficulty to calculate the fee and tokens. But so far so good

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Here is an online calculator for the minimum ADA in UTxOs with NFTs or tokens.

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Sounds great. Thank you so much!