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The Litecoin Developers are aware of a regression introduced in Litecoin Core v0.21.3. A certain number of users may see the error message "Prune mode is incompatible with -blockfilterindex." on startup.

The Temporary Fix

Locate the Litecoin Data Directory. By default this is located at:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Litecoin
Linux: ~/.litecoin
Windows: %APPDATA%\Litecoin

Create a file named litecoin.conf if this doesn't already exist. Edit the litecoin.conf file with the following text:

blockfilterindex=0
peerblockfilters=0

The Fix

The Litecoin Developers plan to release a new patch. Which will automatically detect if prune mode is enabled, and if so, will not attempt to enable blockfilterindex.

migol commented Aug 21, 2024

That did not help me as I have custom data dir. What did help was placing file in root of datadir, at least on Windows.

azharrasheed commented Oct 6, 2024

just create a file and paste the code wherever you create custom folder or default folder

Out-A-Time commented Oct 28, 2024 •

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That did not work for me,
but lead me to find file Litecoin-Qt.conf in /home/your-user-name/.config/Litecoin and changed value to bPrune=false.
It is now downloading the blockchain.
I'm on Linux Mint