Hello,

I have a rather old wallet.dat file (with most likely nothing in it, but I thought I'd make double sure). I've just downloaded bitcoin core and the whole blockchain, but it gets stuck when trying to open the wallet itself. Should it take a long time and I just have to wait, or is there a problem and a way to fix it?

I am on Fedora 35

Many thanks!

Aaaah, that was the problem ETFbitcoin. Thank you so much!

Thank you everyone. The problem is I haven't got a dir called .bitcoin nor a file called bitcoin.conf. I've installed bitcoin core via snap but it needs to run a first time to create all the directories I think

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Okay, I managed to run it the first time and it created a config file in which I can change the datadir. It now tries to install it in the proper place when I rerun it, but thinks I only have 3 GB free... (I have a free terabyte)

https://imgur.com/a/tyuzsl3 for screenshot

Hello there,

I just downloaded the latest stable bitcoin core for linux and I am trying to download the blockchain into a 1 TB external SSD (for the sake of not cluttering my own internal SSD that barely has enough space for the blockchain anyway...)

The problem is, bitcoin core doesn't let me choose the external drive.

I run Fedora 35

Could someone help please? thanks!