Database recreation not really starting?

You could have just continued with old one.

Migration to new PC - faq wanted

but I’m assuming that was awhile ago, so not related to current issue. What is related to issue though?
Need some information on the situation in order to give suitable advice. It’s odd that list isn’t listing…

For a rough plan since nothing’s moving you could restart Duplicati or Linux and see if list then runs.
On the Destination screen, the Test connection button typically will do a list, just to see if it works.

I confirmed with a Recreate and a look at the operations done with destination is that it does a list first.

If your recreate is trying to fix some problem, there’s certainly no guarantee it will, so keep giving clues.