Quote from: nc50lc on January 27, 2024, 06:47:20 AM

Quote from: C0r3R3l34$3 on January 26, 2024, 04:10:12 PM

My questions are:
Is what I'm doing fine?
Is there a difference between Restoring and Opening?
What is the usual ETA for Restoring a Wallet?

- It works but, with Restore, you don't have to place it inside your bitcoin data directory because...

- Because with "Restore", Bitcoin Core will create its own wallet path inside wallets folder, the folder will be named as the wallet name that you've set.
  Then it will make a copy of the wallet file that you've selected, and load it.
  Basically, all you did in post #5, but done automatically.

  With "Open", it skips all the above and proceeds to load the wallet file, but the option can only see wallets in the data directory or wallets folder.
  In this case, pasting the "wallet_fake_008.dat" in the datadir/walletsdir is necessary.

- Differs per wallet and machine specs.

thank you for this post. when i got to restore, i cannot see the wallet.dat file. this is in linux. i thought i have "shown hidden files" in the GUI but when the browser comes up to locate the wallet.dat file, none of those hidden files are shown. i assume there is a setting i missed in linux?