Issues with restoring wallet in Bitcoin Core endless green flashing

Hey everyone, I just grabbed the latest Bitcoin Core version and got the indexing updated in about half an hour. I've tried two things: first, I imported my old wallet.dat by finding the backup and just copying it over to the bitcoin folder. Second, I used the file/restore wallet option, which I thought did pretty much the same thing. But I'm stuck because every time I try to open the wallet (which I don’t think has a password), the opening wallet field keeps flashing green, just like the blocks processing field when it’s syncing. It just keeps flashing, like forever. Is that normal? It’s been ages since I did this, and I remember that once I loaded the backup wallet, it would open right away. But yeah, I know the database is way bigger now, so could that be causing this? Am I doing this right? Thanks a lot :)

We're good! It has indeed restored after taking some time over it :-)

Just as a comment to anyone who searches and finds this post. When you move a wallet.dat file from one machine or core install to another by default it is going to want to scan the entire block chain to find all the transactions that may be associated with this wallet. On older / slower machines it will take some time. -Dave

It would be useful if the wallet is already synced to have a switch or button in the GUI that stops the rescan. Like there is the abortrescan RPC call when you launch Bitcoin Core from the terminal. I have not used the GUI wallet for quite some time, so I am not sure if this feature actually exists, but checking just now on Github, it appears that this feature request was rejected for not being popular enough.