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I re-started using the Bitcoin core wallet after few years.

While I'm learning the new descriptors, and try to figure them out against the old school private keys, sent few coins from one old imported address to a new Bech32m taproot address.

The transaction is not even in the mempool, if I try to search it in a block explorer it looks like it doesn't even exist.

The address was fully rescan and the wallet is synced to the blockchain, so what is going on?

Here the transaction ID: b7007ef7cf8f9cb180231755a5bb7f2fbab122c7abe7d20cd345641718c730c0


Thanks

What are your current system specs?

Are you sure that your BTC core is fully synced? Can you use this command below and share the result here?


Based on ychart the current blockchain size is 528.27GB.

If you want to re-broadcast it and to check what's wrong, go to the "Transactions" tab, right-click on the transaction and select "Copy raw transaction".
Then go to Console and enter the command: sendrawtransaction "RAW_TRANSACTION"
Alternatively, use testmempoolaccept if you do not want to re-broadcast it.
If it shows an error, that is the cause the issue.

Thanks, I think I need to rescan because it said:


The question is why it showed positive balance on my wallet after full sync and scan?

Yes, it means that your wallet included an already spent or non-existing output in that transaction.

You should also abandon that transaction because it'll prevent any other inputs that it tried to spend to be spent in another transaction.
Right-click on it and select "Abandon transaction".

May be a transaction output or change that got dropped later on, check your transaction list for inconsistencies after the rescan.
You'll see it in the icons which should be a 'check', 'clock' (<6confirmations) or 'question mark', check the ones with question mark icons.

so I went here.

https://www.viabtc.com/tools/broadcast


I entered this

b7007ef7cf8f9cb180231755a5bb7f2fbab122c7abe7d20cd345641718c730c0

and it says

raw transaction send failed


that means (I think) it was never sent ever thus you can not re send it.

The string OP has shared is a transaction hash or TXID, which is an identifier for the transaction, not the transaction itself. You cannot broadcast that - you need the raw transaction in order to broadcast it.

thank you. I was not sure why it failed.