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loadwallet

loadwallet “filename”

Loads a wallet from a wallet file or directory. Note that all wallet command-line options used when starting bitcoind will be applied to the new wallet (eg -zapwallettxes, upgradewallet, rescan, etc).

Arguments:

  1. filename (string, required) The wallet directory or .dat file.

Result: { (json object) “name” : “str”, (string) The wallet name if loaded successfully. “warning” : “str” (string) Warning message if wallet was not loaded cleanly. }

Examples:

bitcoin-cli loadwallet “test.dat” curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”: “curltest”, “method”: “loadwallet”, “params”: [“test.dat”]}’ -H ‘content-type: text/plain;’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/