What is the command line approach to opening the wallet, maybe that approach could get around the UI issue to narrow it down.
Try it in the GUI's console first:
- Go to "Window->Console".
- Select "wallet: (none)" (not required)
- Then type: loadwallet "wallet_name" true
In the command line, use bitcoin-cli with the same command as the above:
- Use Windows Explorer and go to daemon/bin folder inside bitcoin's install directory (default: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon")
- Click "File->Open Windows Powershell".
- In Poweshell, type the command: ./bitcoin-cli loadwallet "wallet_name" true
But in order for bitcoin-cli to work with bitcoin-qt, you must use --server arg with your bitcoin-qt or
server=1 in 'bitcoin.conf' file.
In case you've set a custom data directory and not using rpc username and password,
--datadir= should also be indicated for it to find the "
.cookie" file in that directory.
You can change "
true" to "
false" if you do not want to keep the wallet loaded in the next session. (
not recommended if 'prune block storage' is enabled)