No access to wallet until wallet rescan completed #7806

Currently it seems that Bitcoin-Qt keeps the user waiting, without access to the main GUI until the wallet has been completely re-scanned, which can take over an hour on some computers. If the node needs to catch up with the blockchain, it displays the GUI and lets the user know that it is syncing - why doesn't this same functionality exist for when it needs to re-scan the wallet?

The functionality to send transactions should be disabled during this rescan period, but other than this, access could still be given to view transactions so far identified in the wallet, with an indication that re-scanning is in progress.

it displays the GUI and lets the user know that it is syncing - why doesn't this same functionality exist for when it needs to re-scan the wallet?

Because no one implemented it, feel free to do so.

The feature request didn't seem to attract much attention in the past. Also, the issue seems not important enough right now to keep it sitting around idle in the list of open issues.

Closing due to lack of interest. Pull requests with improvements are always welcome.