importprivkey - This type of wallet does not support this command

[ethermachine]

When I run importprivkey it returns unsupported wallet instead of importing. Code:

bitcoin-cli importprivkey "priv_key" "label" false
error code: -4
error message:
This type of wallet does not support this command

Version
bitcoin-cli -version
Bitcoin Core RPC client version v22.99.0-9d099b02d8f0

Node fully synced (full node)
Chain: main
Blocks: 716934
Headers: 716934
Verification progress: 99.9999%
Difficulty: 24272331996979.97

[achow101]

This occurs when your wallet is a descriptor wallet. It is expected behavior.

For builds of the master branch (and the future 23.0 release), newly created wallets will default to being descriptor wallets.

[gologo13]

Hi there, I came across the same error. With legacy wallets, I can get UTXOs of watch_only addresses from listunspent after executing importaddress, but how can I get balances using descriptor wallets.
sorry, I know this could be a different topic, but I hope someone could answer my question.

[achow101]

@gologo13 Create descriptors for your addresses and import them with importdescriptors.