Cannot open wallet files

[SkierScott]

I filled up my hard drive and didn't realize it and because core was throwing an error about a file perhaps the bitcoin.conf that I probably deleted.  I see copies of settings.json but when I open them they are empty including the setting.json file.  I have since increased the drive size and resynced after a couple of months but while I see the wallet files core does not load any of the wallets and when I select File/Open Wallet I get nothing and it hangs for about 30 seconds.  I can see the Wallet files in file explorer so what is going on in core that doesn't allow me to open any wallet?

[achow101]

The wallet files need to be in the wallets directory inside of the data directory. They should be placed in individual folders with the name of the wallet, and the wallets file themselves should be named wallet.dat.

Bitcoin Core should detect the wallets once you do that.


You can also treat the wallet files as backups and use the Restore Wallet feature instead. Bitcoin Core will copy the selected wallet file to the wallets directory and load it. The original file will be untouched.

[SkierScott]

Thanks!  I restored wallets and tat did the trick.