I have a bitcoin core full node version 0.17.1 running on my machine. I want to enable prune on the node to save space on the disk. When I apply -prune=15000 in bitcoin.config file and restart bitcoin core GUI, it shows -txindex is incompatible with prune. So I want to start my node with prune enabled. Is there any way for that?
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By pruning the blockchain you:
Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old blocks. This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to delete specific blocks, and enables automatic pruning of old blocks if a target size in MiB is provided. This mode is incompatible with -txindex and -rescan. Warning: Reverting this setting requires re-downloading the entire blockchain. (default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC, =550 = automatically prune block files to stay under the specified target size in MiB)
So, -txindex cannot be enabled when the blockchain in pruned
answered Mar 7, 2019 at 12:24
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I tried to update property of .exe file like "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -prune=150000 -reindex, and started bitcoin core application on windows server 2012. But still I am getting error that Prune mode is incompatible with -txindex. Mar 7, 2019 at 13:36
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1Hey, I updated my answer. It seems txindex cannot run together with prune. This is the help message from bitcoind Mar 7, 2019 at 13:50
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I don't want to run -txindex, what I want is to run Bitcoin core wallet after prune is enabled. So is there any way to start node after we specify prune? Mar 8, 2019 at 5:02
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Check your bitcoin.conf file. There is a high likelihood that you have -txindex=1 over there which is why it is popping out the error. Mar 9, 2019 at 15:01