Bitcoin Core shows zero balance after transferring between Sparrow wallets

Hey folks, I’m using core v25 linked to my fulcrum server with Sparrow wallet. I just moved funds from one hardware wallet to another within Sparrow, all through my node. Core shows all the outgoing transactions, but I can’t see any of the incoming ones, even though Sparrow displays all of them. How can I get Core to recognize the incoming transactions as part of my balance? It seems like this should be automatic since everything was done in Sparrow, but Core isn't picking up this receiving wallet. Any suggestions would be super helpful! Thanks!

Probably Sparrow uses different wallet files for different devices, so there should be a dropdown at the top right of Bitcoin Core that lets you choose a different wallet. Bitcoin Core does not show information for all wallets loaded, you need to choose specifically which wallet you want to view information for, and spend from.

Hmm, If it's Fulcrum, then there shouldn't be a "mirrored" watch-only wallet in Bitcoin Core since it doesn't work like EPS or Sparrow's direct connection to Bitcoin Core. What I'm thinking is you might have previously connected Sparrow to Core using either options (not Fulcrum) which created a watching-only wallet. Thus the wallet where you're seeing the sending transactions. But now that you're using Fulcrum, your new descriptors from the other (new?) hardware wallet aren't imported to that existing watch-only wallet. If the above scenario is correct, you can manually import your new wallet's public descriptors to that watching-only wallet. You can get it from Sparrow Wallet: "Settings Tab->Export>Output Descriptors" Then import the Bitcoin Core-compatible descriptors to Bitcoin Core using importdescriptors command.

Thank you! I managed to fix it with a Core reinstall before I saw your reply, but the logic of *how* to fix it was bugging the heck out of me. Your reply makes a lot of sense so I think it would have fixed it, but unfortunately I won't be able to find out for sure Nonetheless you've finally put my mind at ease trying to figure out what the problem was haha.