[Solved] I'm dumb, bitcoin core eventually opened the wallet after an hour. No password/passphrase though. But, I keep this wallet in an encrypted mount with veracrypt so it is kinda safe.
I should move all the BTC in this wallet to a new wallet though right? A safer one? Any suggestions?
This is kind of tricky... If there's even a small chance somebody had access to your unencrypted wallet, moving your funds would be wise... However, it's not like you saved your wallet file on cloud storage, right?
Nah it is an encrypted 4 gig file that can only be mounted with veracrypt with a strong password. I keep it on my local machine and it backs up to my server computer in the other room which has a Raid5 configuration in Ubuntu using openZFS. I also encrypt that mount file with a different password with 7z and send backups to my brother every month over syncthing. Overall, it is "safe", but it taking so long to open the wallet file had me worried. It has over $5000 worth of bitcoin in it.
Side Question, any idea why it took Bitcoin Core so long to open the file? It must have taken at least an hour...