I don't think you can run Armory on a pruned instance of core, you need the whole blockchain on.

I have been intermittently running Armory for the better part of a decade.  I have certainly spent my share of time in here bothering the volunteers with the same old questions, and occasionally a rare one.

I think I am the worst sort of Armory user.  The actual clueless noobs throw up their hands and move on.  The actual skilled self-diagnose and only bring genuine issues.  I, on the other hand, am just knowledgeable enough to persist, to run custom pathing configs, to tinker with linux, in short to get myself in over my head and need help.

I have always tried to keep a node synced and online just in case, but, let's face it, Armory can be temperamental, and honestly there have been months at a time when my configuration was broken for one reason or another.

Recently the decision was taken to touch the old keys, for me a very frightening prospect.  I decided to go with Windows and with default pathing to keep everything simple, and I can report that the installation, sync, recovery of old paper backups, the offline signing process, and transfer of funds all went flawlessly (well, there was one hung restart on the online box, but I was able to draw on my vast knowledge and intensive Armory training /s to manually kill the db process which allowed a good restart.)

I was undecided whether to post this at all; the signal to noise ratio in here can be trying, but it occurs to me that all you guys hear are the problems, the frustration and at times even the abuse.  I thought it important to counter some of that with a tale of success.  This software, and the support I have had in here over the years, saw my coins safe from the darkest days of the fall of MtGox to the current halving market cycle, and some of them on into the future.

I wish to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has worked to keep this project moving forward.  Goatpig, you are my kind of deranged hippie man.  HCP, Carlton, Holliday...many others have my gratitude and respect for their patient help over the years.

For others reading this, MAKE THE GODDAMN PAPER BACKUP folks; it works.

There we go.  That's what I needed.  Thank you, I did not see that option.  Yes, entering the words with a 2 button interface would be fiddly, but I am not going to trust a seed that I have not TESTED recovery of, nor one that I have exposed the word space to the internet, even though 24 factorial is a large search, the quantums are coming.

Your help is appreciated.

update, it seems to work fine on the other box, which is odd as that one is quite a bit older than the one it is flaky on, and inconvenient for other reasons, does this happen a lot?

Also, checked through the seed checking and seed recovery process...even though the order is randomized, doesn't reducing the attackable word space to 24 pretty seriously weaken the key?  I mean, I just entered the words in a browser ffs...

yeah, tried different cable, same shit

some network error, problem retrieving resource in the log

fml

trying on another box

thanks, did that, then it hung up on the 19th word

now it seems to be hung up on a firmware update...

brand new trezor 1, going through the process, start to copy down the paper seed backup, it shows me the first word, write it down click the next/right button on the trezor, it shows me the second word, write it down click the button...nothing, click click click, hold button down...nothing, cant move to 3rd word

does not exactly instill confidence

brand new trezor 1, going through the process, start to copy down the paper seed backup, it shows me the first word, write it down click the next/right button on the trezor, it shows me the second word, write it down click the button...nothing, click click click, hold button down...nothing, cant move to 3rd word

does not exactly instill confidence

It is unclear if by "notebook" you mean a pad of paper or a small computer. 

If it is a computer and it has files that look like armory_XXxxXXXxx_.wallet then you are good.

If it is paper then you need the two lines of 4 character groups like HCP said above.

I would not wait for the drive recovery to get started.  Depending on your internet connection and computer equipment Bitcoin Core can take several days to sync.  The blockchain has grown very large since you were involved.  Make sure you have ample free space, some 350 gigs as of now and growing every 10 minutes.  An SSD is ideal and plenty of free RAM helps also.

I recommend you get that part prepared and running now.  I thought I had a good copy of the blockchain but discovered that it had become pruned somehow, I have been downloading for 2 days now with another day to go and I have pretty good internet.