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?