Assist question in running a node

[hmbdofficial]

So yesterday I decided to set up a node and I was able to download the bitcoincore did the setup and it started the pre sync header then i realized I didn’t not tick the prune box so I went to setting and did that. Then  a message poped that the setting I did will require me to download old blocks,  should I just start the node afresh or continue that way?

[LoyceV]

should I just start the node afresh or continue that way?

Yes.

[hmbdofficial]

should I just start the node afresh or continue that way?

Yes.

Sorry I don’t get what the “yes” implies, does it mean I should start over again?

[DireWolfM14]

I don't recall if the prune setting requires a restart of the Bitcoin Core, but it can't hurt.  Just exit bitcoin core and restart the application.

It still needs to download the entire blockchain, but it'll purge older blocks to maintain the hard drive space limit you've set in the dialog box next to the check box.

[LoyceV]

Sorry I don’t get what the “yes” implies, does it mean I should start over again?

Yes, you should either restart if you want to enable pruning or continue.

[Grace333]

Sorry I don’t get what the “yes” implies, does it mean I should start over again?

Yes, you should either restart if you want to enable pruning or continue.

I think i understand the situation here, OP restarting the node doesn't just mean deleting and reinstalling a new, if you don't you are likely to resume from the previous setup. However what I recommend is tracing the files to their storage location on your computer and delete all EXE files as regards the node, that way when you delete and reinstall the node again it would start from the beginning of the setup process. Hope this helped.

[nc50lc]

-snip- should I just start the node afresh or continue that way?

Depends on your use-case, what will you use the node for?

If your reason for running a node is just for your currently loaded wallet(s) and new wallets that you'll create, then it's good enough.

But if it's for various projects that requires the blockchain and other database, it's obvious that you're going to need to disable pruning.
Restoring/Loading and syncing existing wallet.dat files will also be a problem in prune mode since you can only rescan blocks that aren't pruned yet.
You'll be limited to the wallets that are already loaded during sync and the ones that are new with transactions in your not-yet-deleted blocks.

But, as the warning implies, doing so requires your node to download and verify the blockchain again.