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Which version? Also I think that this is a legacy (bdb) wallet.

27.1.0
Yeah could be, i must have installed it in late 2020.

Did you try to unloadwallet -> loadwallet wallet?

error code: -18
error message:
Requested wallet does not exist or is not loaded

Listwallets returns an empty array.
And then when I load the wallet I get the original error message (top).
The file wallet.dat exists though.

listwallets will give you a name (maybe ["wallet"], I actually never tested this part myself)

and then unloadwallet <walletnamefromlist>

[
""
]

ok try unloadwallet ""

{
}

load wallet.dat now, it's taking some time

yeah it will rescan. looks like that worked.

You gotta have the seed phrase, right? It's easier to just wipe that one and re-import! I read that issue might be linked to pruned nodes.

Yes, I've opted for the pruned version. It's probably solved now. The loaded wallet name defaulted to "" somehow.

I think that's because wallet.dat used to be the default back when you could only have 1 wallet per node.

No seed phrases in bitcoin core!!! (at least it was last time I was awake which was in 2017 lol)

You're right! It's been a few years since I last reinstalled Bitcoin Core. I totally forgot about that.