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litecoin-blockfilters-fix.md

The Litecoin Developers are aware of a regression introduced in Litecoin Core v0.21.3. A certain number of users may see the error message "Prune mode is incompatible with -blockfilterindex." on startup.

The Temporary Fix

Locate the Litecoin Data Directory. By default this is located at:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Litecoin
Linux: ~/.litecoin
Windows: %APPDATA%\Litecoin

Create a file named litecoin.conf if this doesn't already exist. Edit the litecoin.conf file with the following text:

blockfilterindex=0
peerblockfilters=0

The Fix

The Litecoin Developers plan to release a new patch. Which will automatically detect if prune mode is enabled, and if so, will not attempt to enable blockfilterindex.

@alecdvor
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alecdvor commented May 26, 2024 •
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I was locked out of my litecoin core application. I even tried a reinstall and I was stuck till I found this fix. Thank you !

@CameronHudson8
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I found that this directory did not exist:

Windows: %APPDATA%\Litecoin

However, putting the config file here fixed it for me:

Windows: %APPDATA%\Roaming\Litecoin

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migol commented Aug 21, 2024

That did not help me as I have custom data dir. What did help was placing file in root of datadir, at least on Windows.

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