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abortrescan

abortrescan

Stops current wallet rescan triggered by an RPC call, e.g. by an importprivkey call.

Note: Use getwalletinfo to query the scanning progress.

Result

NameTypeDescription
true|falsebooleanWhether the abort was successful

Example usage (with RPC call)

Import a private key:

BGL-cli importprivkey "mykey"

Abort the running wallet rescan:

BGL-cli abortrescan

As a JSON-RPC call:

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "abortrescan", "params": []}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8334/