Restoring Wallets Byron or Shelly not working

HI

I have tried now for a few days to get the new Deadalus Wallet 2.0 to work for me… I first installed it over the top of the old wallet folder and had nothing but trouble with it trying to connect and Sync, I saw my old Byron wallet the first time I installed Deadalus…( While the Wallet was Syncing I created a new Shelley Wallet and wrote down the 24 word phrase ) and the Sync Almost completed but then it just stopped and the wallet would not reconnect to the network… So I renamed the folder Deadalus Main folder to something else and did a fresh install of Deadalus and this time the Sync completed 100% after reloading the wallet a number of times… After the wallet had Synced 100% I tried to restore my old Byron Wallet with my 12 Keyword Phrase… I got as far as entering the name of the wallet and the spend password and then clicked the button CONTINUE… But nothing Happen when I click it , does not matter how many times I click on it… nothing…

So I copied the wallets from the Deadalus Main folder that I renamed and reloaded Deadalus and my Old Byron Wallet was there with all my ada and the Shelly Wallet I created earlier… But I wanted to test the Restore Wallet Function before I was going to move any ada to the Shelly Wallet I made… So I deleted the Shelly wallet and tried to restore it using the 24 word phrase… i get to the part after entering the Spend Password again and click on the CONTINUE button , but again nothing happens…

Is anyone else having problems restoring an Old Byron or Shelly Wallet in Deadalus V2.0

I want to know my New Shelly Wallet with my 24 Word PHrase works before I send any funds to it…

I’ve seen similar complaints but have no idea of any solution.

I would advise submitting a support request but that’s quite a complicated story to give them. Maybe best to uninstall and delete/rename all folders again, install again and see what happens, same or similar prob submit request telling them just what happened this time around. Good luck!

Re-Install not gonna happen… it took me nearly 2 days to get this far… it takes hours to sync and endless trying to connect to network issues… I will just wait until they get the issues fixed… This is just one of the issues I have found with v2.0 and just tried to download v2.01 in 2 different web browsers each time it crashed my web browser… maybe everyones it downloading v2.01 - Another thing I found is if you click on the Learn More link while trying to make a new Shelly Wallet it takes you to a dead link, ? Nothing but issues

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Going by @RobJF, you may find it indeed a better practice to start with a clean slate. If the wallet is not working properly it’s likely that the copying of the files and folders described may have broken it in parts. I had issues with Daedalus myself, but in each case it was due to my fiddling with installation folders. To achieve that, I moved the entire folder …\appdata\roaming\Daedalus Mainnet to another drive. Then I created a hard link under Windows in the original location to point to the new location. This has worked well for me. Make sure to move the source folder to target first, then you can create the hardlink:

mklink /j source target

This won’t fix a broken setup… but may help manage the location of your wallet data fluently.

Finally I went out bought a much faster computer… 3GHZ/16GIG RAM/ Etc and finally got Daedalus working and got my rewards and have my coins now Pending for staking …

My old computer was 1.6GHZ/4GIG ram - so if your wallet is not working for you then maybe you need to upgrade your computer… Like I have…

Now I am ready for the cardano future… I hope