This usually happens when your wallet didn’t see that transaction during the initial scan or it’s associated with a key/path your wallet didn’t import correctly. A few things you can try:

Rescan the blockchain when importing your wallet:

bitcoin-cli importwallet "yourwalletfile" true


or if using importprivkey:

bitcoin-cli importprivkey "yourprivatekey" "" true


The true flag forces a rescan, which usually picks up missing transactions.

Check if the missing transaction is to a change address generated by the wallet. Some wallets don’t track old change addresses automatically.

If you have the exact TXID, you can verify it on your node:

bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction "TXID" true


Then make sure the address belongs to your imported keys.

In most cases, a rescan after proper import will load the missing transaction.