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

Name	Type	Description
true|false	boolean	Whether the abort was successful

Examples

Import a private key:

bitcoin-cli importprivkey "mykey"

Abort the running wallet rescan:

bitcoin-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://127.0.0.1:8332/