Not sure if this is the right place to put this but basically, I've already downloaded the blockchain until Dec 27, but now when I open bitcoin core on my hp windows laptop. I got the popup saying this is the first time I launch bitcoin core, which it isn't, but then I selected the 'chainstate' folder on my external hard drive, hoping it would resume the blockchain but instead it started downloading everything from scratch again.
TLDR: Bitcoin Core is asking where to store the blockchain, despite me already having downloaded the blockchain until Dec 27,2020 and I am wondering how to resume the syncing from where I have downloaded. The program starts to redownload the whole blockchain.
Not sure if this is the right place to put this but basically, I've already downloaded the blockchain until Dec 27, but now when I open bitcoin core on my hp windows laptop. I got the popup saying this is the first time I launch bitcoin core, which it isn't, but then I selected the 'chainstate' folder on my external hard drive, hoping it would resume the blockchain but instead it started downloading everything from scratch again.
TLDR: Bitcoin Core is asking where to store the blockchain, despite me already having downloaded the blockchain until Dec 27,2020 and I am wondering how to resume the syncing from where I have downloaded. The program starts to redownload the whole blockchain.