I cant put my wallets online?

[abgihjerg]

No matter how many times I restart armory, no matter what i do it's just stuck on PREPARING DATABASES.

[nc50lc]

Do you have Bitcoin Core installed?
Because it's required by Armory.

If so, is it fully synced and not set to prune the blockchain?
Because the full blockchain is required by Armory to build its database. And also, Bitcoin Core's latest version has prune settings enabled by default.

For better solutions, it's best if you can provide the full/related logs from 'armorylog.txt' in Armory's data directory.

[forensixguy]

Also, Armory won't prepare databases unless you allow bitcoin-qt.exe, ArmoryQt.exe, and ArmoryDB.exe access through any firewall setup you may have (including Windows).

[goatpig]

Also, Armory won't prepare databases unless you allow bitcoin-qt.exe, ArmoryQt.exe, and ArmoryDB.exe access through any firewall setup you may have (including Windows).

None of these processes need to open a listen socket that allows connections from the WAN, I don't think relaxing firewall settings will do much here (unless you're running some intense SELinux variant). Certainly not an issue on stock Windows.