Update:  This worked.  Opened core, then Console.  Used "loadwallet" and it loaded. Still won't work from the GUI menu.  Odd.

Thank you everyone for the help.

Yes, reindexed recently by mistake but without issue.  Not 100% tracking why this could cause a wallet issue. So talk this out a bit, advising to download a fresh copy of the entire chain into a different directory?

Running Windows 10. Core v26.  Every other activity from Core is being written to the debug.log so I’m not concerned that it has access nor if I am looking at the right file. 

Here is what it does.  If I go to File —> Open Wallet where it shows an arrow for a slide out menu, it stalls at that point.  Nothing written to log.  I’ve ended the explorer.exe process and started that process back up, just to make sureWindows Explorer wasn’t causing the issue.

What is the command line approach to opening the wallet, maybe that approach could get around the UI issue to narrow it down.

When I attempt to "Open Wallet" in Core v26.0, and this also happened in v25.0, it hangs.  Nothing is written to the log file, the menu stays open and then after a couple minutes closes as if nothing happened.  I've rebooted, reinstalled core, etc. 

Any thoughts?