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I follow this wiki guide and this thread. After executing the command importprivkey mylongprivatekey in the Console, I see a popup window saying

[MyWallet] Rescanning...

and that takes couple of hours to finish. When it's done, I do not see Address Book show up next to Transactions as in the wiki page.

I thought one issue may be that the wallet get locked after the 10 minutes allowance. But I tried longer time, like 4 hours. Same issue.

I'm using bitcoin-0.20.0.

This is what I expect to see, enter image description here

This is what I see after it finishes rescanning, enter image description here

horaceT
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  • If you issue the `getaddressinfo
    ` command (with `
    ` replaced by the address that you had hoped to get the key imported for, what do you get?
     – Pieter Wuille Mar 15 '21 at 23:03
  • @PieterWuille You mean issuing the command in the Console? I won't be able to try it until it stops rescanning.... – horaceT Mar 15 '21 at 23:08
  • Did you provide a label? Without label I don't think it'll show up in the address book. The RPC I mentioned will tell you whether it was properly imported. – Pieter Wuille Mar 15 '21 at 23:16
  • @PieterWuille Yeap. Only complication is this. Because this didn't work the first time, I tried importing the same private key couple of times using either QT or the command line `bitcoin-cli`. Not sure if it might have confused the app – horaceT Mar 15 '21 at 23:19
  • @PieterWuille It just finished and I did `getaddressinfo MyAddr` it shows the correct label. – horaceT Mar 16 '21 at 02:18
  • @PieterWuille So, the private key has been imported successfully. Question then is why QT user interface doesn't show the `Address Book` button. And how do I send bitcoin out of this address, if it has balance (this particular one does not). – horaceT Mar 16 '21 at 02:20
  • Oh that's just because the UI has been changed a lot. That documentation you're looking at is for version 0.7 (which was released in 2012). You don't need to do anything; if it's imported it'll work. If you had received coins on that address (or will receive), it'll show up in your balance, and be spendable. – Pieter Wuille Mar 16 '21 at 03:04
  • @PieterWuille Then, is there any way to list all the addresses I've imported into this wallet? – horaceT Mar 16 '21 at 07:15
  • It should be on the receive tab. – Pieter Wuille Mar 16 '21 at 07:16
  • @PieterWuille In `Receive` tab, I don't see my imported address. I see a button `Create new receiving address` though. But that creates a new address. – horaceT Mar 16 '21 at 07:27
  • Sorry, then I don't know. I don't work on the GUI. – Pieter Wuille Mar 16 '21 at 07:28
  • @PieterWuille Is there any command(s) on command line `bitcoin-cli` to show my addresses? – horaceT Mar 16 '21 at 07:42

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