I am hoping for a little assistance trying to recover my BTC wallet. I am using BitCoin Core v0.20.1.
I initially installed the entire blockchain, and pruned. I created a single wallet and funded it via an online exchange, and the funds appeared in my wallet within a short time. A that time I was done with what I wanted to do. I shut down BTC Core. Skip ahead a couple of weeks and my GF wanted a wallet of her own. So I started up Core, re-synched what it needed and made her wallet. We repeated the same process I had done, and everything worked ok.
The problem is now, I cannot go back and open my first wallet. The exact error is:
"Wallet loading failed: Prune: last wallet synchronization goes beyond pruned data. You need to -reindex (download the whole blockchain again in case of pruned node)."
So last night I ran core using the -reindex switch, and let it completely download the blockchain again. This morning I tried to open my first wallet, and same problem. Wallet loading failed.
I don't know what to do at this point. Should I -reindex one more time, and turn pruning off? I'm open to any and all suggestions. It's not a million dollars, but it still feels like a loss, and I'm in desperate need of a "win"
these days.
Here's hoping someone has some further suggestions.
Thanks everyone. Stay safe. Stay warm (it's -30 here)