No luck there either . In the tutorials provided by Armory it had an option to download the database through Armory itself but when I looked I had no options for anything like that. Since I've had it installed it will only show "Preparing Databases". Could reinstalling Armory work possibly? And if I do reinstall it, would I keep the same wallet and the bitcoin that were transferred to it?

Yup there is a "blocks" folder as well as "chainstate" and "wallets" folder in D:\BitcoinCore. I'm also nearly certain the blockchain was downloaded to this drive and not my main one as i now have 200GB less space on my hdd.

Apologies, https://pastebin.com/rgMxPTw4 there is the log, and thank you very much for your help so far. Yea I had changed the settings before to try and fix it, but when I changed the shortcut I also changed back the settings I had changed.

I'm confused, I have btc core installed in its own folder D:\BitcoinCore, in that folder there is the blocks folder. I tried to load armory with D:\BitcoinCore\blocks and just D:\BitcoinCore as the datadir but after both attempts armory is still preparing databases.

https://pastebin.com/kWkxnjub
Thats my log, and yea I tried to change the armory settings to use the btc core database I downloaded, but I wasn't sure which folder to use, and I didn't know the difference between home directory and database directory. Rereading your reply, no I did not change any settings or configuration of bitcoin core.

I'm fairly new to crypto and I thought setting up a wallet would be a good way to get started and I thought I had researched enough and chose Armory, and after I installed it I sent the btc from coinbase to my wallet, but after I noticed it wasn't in my balance I did notice that my wallet was offline. All of the armory tutorials they have seem to be very out of date and the UI for the new version of Armory is completely different. Most of the tutorials/other people asking for help mention multiple tabs/other options in their dashboard or some mention command prompts, but I can't find anything like that. https://imgur.com/zTLiChX This is what my program has been stuck on, and I can't figure out how to let it prepare the database. I downloaded bitcoin core and went through the whole process of downloading the blockchain in my second drive, but I am completely lost on how to get Armory to use it. Any help would be tremendously helpful and I'm sorry if this is easily fixed and I was just too dumb to know what to do. I'm on Windows 10, Armory is on my main ssd, the btc database is on my secondary hdd, using version 0.96.5 of armory, 0.18.1 for btc core